Language Science Lunch Talk: Rochelle Newman (HESP)

Then and now – how my thinking has changed about children's listening in noise

Abstract: When I started researching infants' ability to understand speech in noise, I took as my starting point that children, like adults, needed to separate different streams of speech and selectively attend to a single sound source in order to comprehend and learn from the signal.  I've now changed my theoretical viewpoint substantially.  In this talk, I'll discuss why I came to make this change, what I now think are the more important questions to ask going forward, and I'll also discuss how having a dog lab fits into any of this.  

Lunch served at 12:15.