Speech Science Forum 11th June - Dr. Hannah J. Stewart
On June 11th, Dr. Hannah J. Stewart will deliver an online talk entitled "Speech and non-speech cortical networks: Typical development and effect of listening difficulties" for the Speech Science Forum. If you would like to attend the talk, for those on the mailing list, simply click the provided Teams link at 3:30pm. If you are not subscribed to the mailing list, please contact the organiser for the link.
Talk Title - Speech and non-speech cortical networks: Typical development and effect of listening difficulties
Abstract:
The mechanisms underlying listening difficulties are poorly understood. Listening difficulties are frequently reported among children with clinically normal hearing, but with academic, language and attention problems – a condition sometimes referred to as developmental ‘auditory processing disorder’. I will be showing that exploring the cortical networks involved in speech and non-speech listening may hold the key.
To understand speech, we integrate acoustic features through the bottom-up stream of the auditory pathway to the auditory cortex, and linguistic properties through widespread top-down cortical areas of semantic processing and cognition. I will be sharing our results from a large longitudinal study at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital looking at how these cortical areas work together in children with and without listening difficulties.
Dr. Hannah Maclure
Research Fellow
UCL
Further information
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Free
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