Speech
Recognition & Aging Lab 
My research focuses on speech
understanding deficits among aging, hearing-impaired individuals. Specifically, I am interested in the growing body of evidence that suggests older adults have
difficulty processing binaural auditory information (i.e., binaural interference). Current
projects in the Speech Recognition and Aging Lab are examining:
1.
the effects of reduced dichotic word
recognition performance on the right ear advantage of young
adults
with normal hearing; and
2.
the relationship between dichotic
word recognition and word recognition in a competing message
among young and older adult listeners.
I believe these projects will aid in
defining an audiologic profile of older adults that exhibit binaural processing
deficits. Results from this area of
research are relevant to the clinical practice of audiology since a decline in
binaural auditory processing has been associated with a lack of benefit from
binaural amplification, a common form of audiologic rehabilitation for older
adults with sensorineural hearing loss.
Presenting
. . . The Dichotic Divas!
Katie
Lamoreau, Au.D.
Student Kelsey
Egelhoff, Ph.D.
Student Christina M. Roup, Lab
PI Ursula
M. Goss, Ph.D.
Student
SR&A
Lab, Pressey Hall, Department of Speech & Hearing Science, The