Lab News

Congratulations to undergraduate lab member Brooke Willse who presented her poster titled “Hearing Loss as a Predictive Risk Factor for Sleep Disorder Diagnoses in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders” at the UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research and the SPHS Student Research Day. We are so proud of your hard work this...

The ALLears Lab was well represented at the 2025 American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) Conference in Washington DC! Alexandria Swaine and Carnes Mathis presented a poster titled “Individual Differences in Visual Pattern Completion Predict Lexical Bias for Clear Speech.” Talia Mango presented a poster titled “Measuring Lexical Competition...

The ALLears Lab has been awarded a two-year, $75,000 ASHFoundation Clinical Research Grant for the project “Characterizing sleep outcomes in school-age children with hearing loss.“ This project will examine how hearing loss affect’s children’s sleep patterns and daily fatigue, laying the groundwork for rehabilitation strategies that promote better sleep, reduced...

The lab was part of a new publication titled  “Language without borders: A step-by-step guide to analyzing webcam eye-tracking data for L2 research” which was published in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics as part of a special issue. This exciting work was in collaboration with Dr. Jason Geller (Boston College),...

Check out a new lab paper published in Ear & Hearing titled “Malleability of the Lexical Bias Effect for Acoustically Degraded Speech” with co-authors Laura Putnam (USC) and Dr. Charles Davis (Duke).    

Undergraduate lab trainees Anne-Estelle Strawn and Julianna Winfree showcased their research at both the UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research and SPHS Student Research Day! Anne-Estelle presented a poster titled “Fatigue in Individuals with Hearing Loss: A Critical Review” which highlights the findings of a comprehensive literature review she conducted over...

Congratulations to ALLears lab member, Bethany Rose, who was accepted into the LEND Audiology Internship at Oregon Health & Science University! She will complete the 6-week intensive training program in Summer 2025. 

Congratulations to lab trainees Emily Jedlowski and Sarah Bayer who presented posters at the 2025 American Auditory Society Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. 

The lab has a new publication in Brain & Language, titled “Individual differences in visual pattern completion predict adaptation to degraded speech” co-authored by Dr. Drouin and Dr. Charles Davis (Duke University). This publication was part of the special issue on neural systems underlying speech processing in challenging listening environments:...

Congrats to ALLears Lab Member, Cameron Thomas, who presented a poster at the 2024 UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research! He presented ongoing research related to sleep and perceptual learning of noise-vocoded speech. https://our.unc.edu/abstract/thomas-sleep-mediated-learning-of-distorted-speech/