At the recent Acoustical Society of America conference, research was presented from four labs in the department including the following presentations:

• “Predicting children's word recognition accuracy with two distance metrics” presented by Emma Brown, a undergraduate honors student in Tessa Bent’s Speech Perception Laboratory
• “An ultrasound study of American English laterals produced by first graders” presented by Sherman Charles, a Ph.D. student in Steven Lulich’s Speech Production Laboratory
• “The effect of altered sentence rhythm on timing judgments” and “The role of gender expectations on word recognition” presented by Dylan Pearson, a Ph.D. student working with Drs. Bent and Shen
• “Coping with the Black Swan in psychophysics” and “The effect of reverberation on listening effort” presented by Dr. Yi Shen
• “Ability of normal hearing listeners to recognize vowels and musical instruments under spectrally-degraded conditions” presented by Ryan Anderson, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Shofner’s Auditory Physiology Laboratory
• “Age-related differences in modulation detection interference and interference release” presented by Yuan He, a Ph.D. student working in Dr. Lentz’s Auditory Perception Laboratory
• “Racial categorization and word identification: The influence of sex, race and regional dialect” co-presented by Dr. Tessa Bent
• “Can listeners reliably identify their preferred amplification profiles for speech listening?” presented by Donghyeon Yun, a Ph.D. student working in Dr. Lentz’s Auditory Perception Laboratory