Dr. Brandon Paul

Biography

Dr. Brandon Paul is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University. He directs the Cognitive Hearing Laboratory, where the goal is to understand the connection between hearing, cognition, social function, and brain health. His group uses methods such as psychophysics, cognitive tasks, hearing physiology, and electroencephalography (EEG).

Dr. Paul holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from McMaster University, and an M.A. in Speech and Hearing Science and a B. Mus. in Music Theory from Ohio State University. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Montreal, and at Sunnybrook Research Institute. Dr. Paul’s research has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Canadian Standards Association.

Representative Publications

Aguiar, P. V., Williams, M. R., & Paul, B. T. (2025) Visual cortical responses in age-related hearing loss show evidence for compensatory neuroplasticity. GeroScience. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-02013-w (external link) 

Paul, B. T., Aguiar, P. V.*, & Al-Shaikh, J. H.* (2026). Influence of speech-in-noise perception, gender, and age on lipreading ability for monosyllabic words. Speech Communication, 103354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2026.103354 (external link) .

Paul, B. T., Trinh, V., Chen, J., Le., T., Lin, V. & Dimitrijevic, A. (2025). Speech outcomes in cochlear implant users depend on visual cross-modal cortical activity measured before or after implantation. Brain Communications, fcaf071. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf071 (external link) .

Paul, B. T., Chen, J., Le., T., Lin, V. & Dimitrijevic, A. (2021). Cortical alpha oscillations in cochlear implant users reflect subjective ratings of listening effort during speech-in-noise perception. PLOS ONE 16(7): e0254162. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254162 (external link) .