Research Symposium

Speech Understanding by Cochlear Implant Patients in Complex Listening Environments

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 my implant patients. My disclosure slide says that the work is supported both by the NIDCD and cochlear implant companies who pay my staff salaries,...

Auditory Scene Analysis: An Attention Perspective

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

When the Ears Interact with the Brain

What we perceive in a complex setting depends on how we focus attention

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...

Understanding Speech in Complex Acoustic Environments

This presentation focuses on the cocktail party problem and understanding why listeners with sensorineural hearing loss experience great difficulty in solving this problem

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...

The Development of Hearing Under Complex Listening Conditions

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

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...

How Aging Affects Speech Understanding in the Presence of Competing Speech

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

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...

Innovative Treatments for Persons With Dementia

Describing innovative treatment approaches to improve the quality of life of persons with dementia

Describing innovative treatment approaches to improve the quality of life of persons with dementia The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. It’s an honor to be here to share with you some ideas about treatment, and actually I’m to be giving you a little history...

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Diagnostic Screening and Assessment Research

Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging – A Public Health Perspective

Highlighting recent epidemiologic research on hearing loss, accelerated cognitive decline, and incident dementia, as well as future trends in addressing hearing loss as a public health problem

Highlighting recent epidemiologic research on hearing loss, accelerated cognitive decline, and incident dementia, as well as future trends in addressing hearing loss as a public health problem The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. So, I...

Primary Progressive Aphasia: Advances in Diagnosis, Prognosis, & Treatment

A review of recent advances in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia

A review of recent advances in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation handout and references. Thank you so much. It’s great to be here. It’s great...

Connected Speech and Syntactic Impairment in Primary Progressive Aphasia

Describing the diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variants with particular focus on the speech and language features that differentiate them

Describing the diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variants with particular focus on the speech and language features that differentiate them The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. I’ll be talking today about connected speech...