Speech Science Forum - Elin Bonyadi
How listeners use information about 'who', 'what', and 'where' for speech-in-speech perception
Understanding speech among competing speech (“speech-in-speech perception”) can be challenging and effortful, particularly for people with hearing loss. As well as peripheral processes at the ear, we use central cognitive processes to understand speech-in-speech. Yet, we do not fully understand how these processes operate, or how they may be (differentially) affected by hearing loss. In this talk, I will present experiments I have conducted during my PhD, that compare how advance cueing of talker identity, semantic context, and spatial location affects intelligibility during speech-in-speech perception in young adults without hearing loss. I will also present plans for my next PhD experiment, which will compare use of the aforementioned cues between people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss and those without hearing loss. I plan to test how these cues affect listening effort (measured using pupillometry), as well as speech intelligibility.
I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) at UCL, supervised by Dr Emma Holmes at the Cognitive Hearing Lab. My research interests include auditory cognition and how it is affected by peripheral hearing loss. My project aims to understand and compare how people with and without hearing loss use prior knowledge about talker identity (“who”), semantic context (“what”), and spatial location (“where”) to understand speech in noisy environments.
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