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The conduct of biomedical research is highly resource intensive, but it is an effort deemed worthy of the expense because the end results—new knowledge, scientific evidence, and benefits to public health—can be trusted. Even when outright advances do not arise from an investigation, the product of research should be trustworthy...
This report describes one collaborative, interprofessional, and interinstitutional project developed to provide clinical educational experiences specifically designed to familiarize students with other disciplines and to teach the teamwork skills necessary for practice in a rural setting. The impetus to begin the program was an outgrowth of discussions within the college...
The p value has evolved as the gold standard for evaluating much of the research evidence in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and other disciplines. Is reliance on the p value the best approach for evaluating clinical significance, or might subjectivity have a role and value in clinical practice and scientific research?...
Scholarly publishing is about 350 years old, dating back to 1665 with the publication of the propitiously titled Philosophical transactions: Giving some accompt [account] of the present understandings, studies, and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world(Ware & Mabe, 2015). The scholarly journals of the American...
Auditory scene analysis facilitates the ability to perceive sound events in the environment, such as when listening to your friend talking in a noisy restaurant. Neural processes must account for the dynamics of such situations. This presentation will out The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for...
What we perceive in a complex setting depends on how we focus attention The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. What I’m going to talk to you about today is sort of an overview giving you a feel for how it is that the brain...
This presentation focuses on the cocktail party problem and understanding why listeners with sensorineural hearing loss experience great difficulty in solving this problem The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Thank you Karen, and thank you for inviting me here I appreciate it. And thanks...
This presentation describes the maturation of hearing in complex, multi-source acoustic environments and age-related changes in the ability to selectively attend and speech-in-speech recognition The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Thank you very much to Karen for inviting me to present today. And I...
This presentation focuses on speech perception outcomes when people with one or two cochlear implants listen in test environment simulations of restaurants and cocktail parties The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I’m going to talk about speech understanding in simulations of complex environments by...
This presentation describes research regarding factors that exacerbate or help to mitigate the difficulty older adults experience understanding speech in the presence of competing talkers I’m Karen Helfer from the University of Massachusetts and today I’m going to be talking about aging and how aging affects speech understanding. The two...