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Cochlear Implants
For some children and adults with severe-profound hearing loss, cochlear implants can be used to improve hearing and communication abilities. While these devices can provide great benefit, sound quality can still impact communication. We study how listeners with a cochlear implant process and understand speech.
For some children and adults with severe-profound hearing loss, cochlear implants can be used to improve hearing and communication abilities. While these devices can provide great benefit, sound quality can still impact communication. We study how listeners with a cochlear implant process and understand speech.
Listening Effort
Listening with a hearing loss can be a tiring and effortful experience. The effort needed to listen can impact people's motivations to engage in social communication, especially if they have hearing loss. We study listening effort in 2 ways:
1. Pupillometry: Your pupil grows in size as you exert more effort. We use a camera to measure how your pupil size changes as you listen so we can better understand what make listening more or less effortfull.
2. Dual-task: When communicating, we often are doing something else (washing dishes, taking notes, or watching TV). We study listening effort by measuring how well you can multitask while listening to speech.
Listening with a hearing loss can be a tiring and effortful experience. The effort needed to listen can impact people's motivations to engage in social communication, especially if they have hearing loss. We study listening effort in 2 ways:
1. Pupillometry: Your pupil grows in size as you exert more effort. We use a camera to measure how your pupil size changes as you listen so we can better understand what make listening more or less effortfull.
2. Dual-task: When communicating, we often are doing something else (washing dishes, taking notes, or watching TV). We study listening effort by measuring how well you can multitask while listening to speech.
Speech understanding in quiet and in noise
With hearing loss, understanding speech can be difficult even when communicating in quiet environments. In noise, speech understanding becomes even more difficult. We study how noise impacts communication and how we can use noise to create better diagnostic tests in audiology.
With hearing loss, understanding speech can be difficult even when communicating in quiet environments. In noise, speech understanding becomes even more difficult. We study how noise impacts communication and how we can use noise to create better diagnostic tests in audiology.
Spanish-English bilingual speech understanding