The SPAN LAB investigates the neurophysiological processing of naturalistic speech with an eye towards developing ecologically valid objective tools to inform communication benefits from hearing rehabilitation strategies.
We use a systems neuroscience approach employing multimodal neurophysiological approaches integrated with psychoacoustic tasks and naturalistic speech to study top-down and bottom-up mechanisms involved in speech processing. The long-term goal of this lab is to develop neurophysiologically informed, generalizable, and easy-to-use objective metrics of speech processing that can be seamlessly employed with hearing rehabilitative options such as hearing aids, cochlear implants, or auditory learning.
