Lab News

Congratulations to Talia Mango who was awarded the prestigious Student Research Grant in Audiology from the ASHFoundation! Her proposal explores eye-tracking as a novel outcome measure of speech adaptation in children with hearing loss. Well done!

Dr. Drouin presented in the virtual 2023 BeOnline Conference where she discussed her experience running cochlear implant users in online speech perception studies. A recording of the talk can be viewed here: https://beonlineconference.com/lexical-bias-for-ambiguous-speech/

Former ALLears lab trainee, Stephany Flores (now at CSUF), and Dr. Drouin will present their poster titled “Effects of Training Length on Adaptation to Noise-Vocoded Speech” at the 2023 ASHA Conference in Boston, MA. The submission was acknowledged as a Meritorious Poster Submission, which is recognition for research judged to...

Congratulations to ALLears trainee Talia Mango who was awarded the ASHA Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award!! She will attend the 2023 ASHA Conference in Boston, MA with Dr. Drouin and receive additional on developing a career in research.

The lab published a recent paper in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics titled “Influence of face masks on recalibration of phonetic categories” with co-authors Dr. Drouin (UNC) and previous ALLears trainee Jose Rojas (now at SDSU). https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-023-02715-3

Laura Putnam (former ALLears Lab research assistant) presented research findings on the lexical bias effect for noise-vocoded speech at the 2022 ASHA Conference in New Orleans, LA. 

New article accepted at the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. The article is titled “Sleep-based memory consolidation stabilizes perceptual learning of noise-vocoded speech” and was completed in collaboration with Victoria Zysk (UConn), Dr. Emily Myers (UConn), and Dr. Rachel Theodore (UConn). 

The ALLears Lab moves to from Cal State Fullerton to UNC Chapel Hill! The lab will continue to explore ways to optimize spoken language outcomes for individuals with hearing loss.