Recently, the PI of the PsychLing Lab, Dr. Kristin Van Engen, traveled to Singapore to give a talk titled "Working to understand: speech communication across accents". In this talk, Dr. Van Engen covered many different facets of accent and listening effort.
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On Monday, August 14th, Violet Brown successfully defended her doctoral thesis! Her thesis, titled "The Dual-Task Costs of Audiovisual Speech Processing Across Levels of Background Noise and Semantic Constraint" focuses on how cues that benefit speech intelligibility (e.g., understanding the words that were said) affect listener's ability to perform tasks alongside understanding the speech, like remembering what a conversational partner said.
Dr. Brown is going to be a postdoc with Julia Strand at Carleton College, where she will continue her work on Speech Perception. The PsychLing Lab has been so lucky to have her, and we are so excited to see what her future has in store.
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