Larry E. Roberts is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He received his bachelor’s and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. He has studied neural plasticity in the human auditory system using laboratory training methods and musicians as models, and has investigated the role of neural plasticity in tinnitus, publishing extensively in both domains.  Most recently he joined with Susan Shore and Berthold Langguth to review mechanisms of tinnitus for Nature Reviews: Neurology.