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This course presents a study that looked at effect of masker type on both emotion and word recognition at different signal to noise ratios (SNRs). Twenty-four young adult listeners with normal hearing completed emotional questionnaires and two forced-choice tasks: choosing a target word or perceived emotion from a list of four choices. Word and emotion recognition were affected by masker stimulus characteristics, with best performance in a background of speech-modulated noise. Emotion recognition was differentially hindered compared to word recognition in the presence of a two-talker babble masker, suggesting that emotion recognition may be more obscured by linguistic context than word recognition, when listening in complex environments.

This course is a recorded technical research session from the 2021 ASHA Convention Virtual Library (session 4628V).

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• State how masker characteristics influence word recognition performance
• State how masker characteristics influence emotion recognition performance
• Compare how maskers influence emotion and word recognition

Presenter Information

Dr. Shae Morgan (Presenting Author) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville. He graduated from The University of Utah with his PhD and AuD. His research focuses on how hearing impacts social judgments we make of others. Additionally, he is interested in clinical audiology innovation (e.g., clinical audiology simulation, automated audiometry, new treatments for otitis media, etc.). He is also the co-owner of Audiology Technology Solutions, LLC, and creator of the Clinical Audiology Simulation Software (CLASS).

Financial Disclosures:

• Assistant professor at University of Louisville 
• ASHFoundation New Investigator Research Grant recipient

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• None

Stacy Garrard (Presenting Author) received her Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Hearing Sciences from University of Iowa in May 2019. She is a current second-year Audiology student at University of Louisville, with an expected graduation date of May 2023. Her current clinical interests include electrophysiological testing, cochlear implants, and hearing aids.

Financial Disclosures:

• Receives stipend provided by University of Louisville

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• None

Tiffany Hoskins (Presenting Author) is currently a University of Louisville graduate student researcher working in Dr. Morgan's lab for stipend/scholarship and is in the second year in UofL's Audiology Doctorate program.

Financial Disclosures:

• Graduate student in University of Louisville Audiology program

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• Member of Student Academy of Audiology 
• Graduate student clinician in UofL's Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology

Learning Assessment

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by June 20, 2027. 

Program History and CE Information

Content origination date: November 2021
End date: June 20, 2027

This course is offered for 0.05 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).

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