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DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 27th 2025 • 4:30pm to 6pm\n	Leacock Building #232
 \, 855 Sherbrooke West\n\nLori Leibold Ph.D.\n	Senior Director • Center for
  Hearing Research\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\nLori Leibold is the Senior Director of
  the Center for Hearing Research and the Director of the Human Auditory De
 velopment Laboratory at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha\, Ne
 braska. She reviewed her B.S. from McMaster University\, M.Sc. from the Un
 iversity of Western Ontario\, and her Ph.D. from the University of Washing
 ton. Her background is in audiology and developmental psychoacoustics. Her
  program of research investigates auditory development broadly\, with a sp
 ecific focus on how children learn to hear and understand speech in the pr
 esence of competing background sounds. This research involves individuals 
 ranging in age from 4 months to 40 years\, including infants and children 
 with hearing loss\, children and adults who speak both English and Spanish
 \, and\, most recently\, children with Down syndrome.\n\nPresentation titl
 e\n	Maturation of speech recognition in noisy environments\n\nBrief descrip
 tion of presentation\n	Most prior studies of children’s speech recognition 
 abilities have been conducted on monolingual children with normal hearing 
 who are neurotypical\, using well-characterized target stimuli presented i
 n quiet. However\, children spend their days listening to different talker
 s in noisy environments in which the acoustic cues associated with the tar
 get talker are variable and often degraded. This talk will provide an over
 view of the key findings of research conducted in the Human Auditory Devel
 opment Laboratory focused on identifying factors that support maturation o
 f speech perception in the presence of competing background sounds. Data w
 ill be presented that highlight the prolonged time course of development f
 or recognizing target speech in the presence of competing speech relative 
 to steady noise\, highlighting potential mechanisms underlying this differ
 ence. Results from studies investigating effects of listener factors such 
 as age\, linguistic knowledge\, hearing loss\, and intellectual disability
  on children’s outcomes will be highlighted. Finally\, the applicability o
 f prior findings with respect to understanding the challenges children fac
 e when listening to speech in real-world environments will be discussed.\n
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LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, Leacock Building (232)\, 855 Sherbr
 ooke Street West
SUMMARY:Save the Date: 2025 Donald G. Doehring Memorial Lecture
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 ing-memorial-lecture-363732
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