Publications by authors named "Calli M Yancey"
This study examined the speech-related advantages of binaural listening for individuals conversing in a noisy restaurant. Young, normal-hearing adults were tested in groups of four during monaural and binaural listening conditions. Monosyllabic word stimuli were presented in a closed-set format.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this study was to obtain a normative database of speech intelligibility data for young normal-hearing listeners communicating in public spaces. A total of 174 listeners participated in an interactive speech intelligibility task that required four-person groups to conduct a live version of the Modified Rhyme Test in noisy public spaces. The public spaces tested included a college library, a college cafeteria, a casual dining restaurant during lunch hour, and a crowded bar during happy hour.
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- Cochlear implants (CIs) force users to rely on temporal cues for speech recognition, and age can negatively affect the ability to process these cues, potentially disadvantaging older users compared to younger ones.
- The study examined how younger and older normal-hearing listeners recognized noise-vocoded sentences with varying spectral channels and low-pass filter (LPF) settings, focusing on age-related impacts on speech recognition.
- Results showed younger listeners outperformed older ones in sentence recognition, but as the number of spectral channels increased, the performance gap narrowed; both groups struggled with lower-frequency amplitude modulations in certain conditions.