Spectral modulation detection in normal hearing children

This Capstone Project attempts to determine the ability of normal hearing children to resolve spectral information, and the relationship between spectral resolution ability and speech recognition ability in noise. This study also examines how these abilities develop with age

Effects of overall presentation level and hearing aids on emotional responses to non-speech sounds

Listeners with hearing loss exhibit a reduced range of emotional responses to non-speech sounds. They report feeling less pleasant and less unpleasant in response to pleasant or unpleasant sounds than their peers do with normal hearing. However, it is not clear how to counteract the effects of hearing loss on emotional responses. Two possibilities are a) increasing the overall level or b) fitting hearing aids. The purpose of this project was to examine these two possibilities for adults with acquired hearing loss