Applied Hearing Science Lab at UW

Being able to track the rhythmic regularities in speech is critical for speech understanding in competing backgrounds. Here is our fifth paper on this topic!

Contribution of speech rhythm to understanding speech in noisy conditions: Further test of a selective entrainment hypothesis - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics Previous work by McAuley et al. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3222–3233, (2020), Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83, 2229–2240, (2021) showed that disruption of the natural rhythm of target (attended) speech worsens speech recognition in the presence of competing background ...

Dylan's second first-author paper is out! What a one-two punch! In this article, Dylan has demonstrated that older adults may have increased difficulties of leveraging rhythmic regularity in a target sound for selective listening...

The effect of rhythm on selective listening in multiple-source environments for young and older adults Understanding continuous speech with competing background sounds is challenging, particularly for older adults. One stimulus property that may aid lis…