Hearing Health Laboratory
Director: Aryn M. Kamerer, Ph.D.
The Hearing Health Laboratory studies why people complain of having hearing loss or difficulty hearing, especially conversations in noisy environments. We aim to understand pathologies and diseases of the auditory system and develop new clinical tools to diagnose these pathologies so that better treatment can be provided for people suffering from hearing loss. Our current study is trying to help people who feel they have difficulties hearing in noisy environments but may have “normal hearing” or mild hearing loss when diagnosed with standard hearing tests at the doctor’s office or audiology clinic. We collaborate with the Aural Rehabilitation Lab at USU and Communications Engineering Laboratory at Boys Town National Research Hospital to conduct several of our studies.
Participate in our Research Studies
Do you have difficulty hearing or trouble understanding conversations in noisy backgrounds? Participate in a study to help understand hearing loss and develop new tests for hearing! If you are interested in participating in our studies, please contact a member of our research team at hearinghealth@usu.edu.
Borrie, S.A., Barrett, T.S., Willi, M.M., & Berisha, V. (in press). Syncing up for a good conversation: A clinically-meaningful methodology for capturing conversational entrainment in the speech domain. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Borrie, S.A., Barrett, T.S., & Yoho, S.E. (2019). Autoscore: An open-source automated tool for scoring listener perception of speech. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 145, 392-399.
Yoho, S.E., Borrie, S.A., Barrett, T.S., & Whittaker, D. (2019). Are there sex effects for speech intelligibility in American English? Examining the influence of talker, listener, and methodology. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 558-570.
Borrie, S.A., Lansford, K.L., & Barrett, T.S. (2018). Understanding dysrhythmic speech: When rhythm does not matter and learning does not happen. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 143, EL379-EL385.
McLaughlin, D.J, Baese-Berk, M.M, Bent, T., Borrie, S.A., & Van Engen, K. (2018). Coping with adversity: Individual differences in the perception of noisy and accented speech. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80, 1559-1570.
Wynn, C.J., Borrie, S.A., & Sellars, T. (2018). Speech rate entrainment in children and adults with and without autism spectrum disorder. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27, 965-974.
Parker, M.A. & Borrie, S.A. (2018). Judgements of intelligence and likeability in young adult female speakers of American English: The influence of vocal fry and the surrounding acoustic-prosodic context. Journal of Voice, 32, 538-545.
Lansford, K.L., Luhrsen, S., Ingvalson, E., & Borrie, S.A. (2018). Effects of familiarization on intelligibility of dysarthric speech in older adults with and without hearing loss. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27, 91-98.
Yoho, S.E. & Borrie, S.A. (2018). Combining degradations: The effect of background noise on intelligibility of disordered speech. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 143, 281-286.
Willi, M.M., Borrie, S.A., Barrett, T.S., Tu, M. & Berisha, V. (2018). A discriminative acoustic-prosodic approach for measuring local entrainment. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2018. Paper number 1419, 1–5.
Borrie, S.A., Lansford, K.L. & Barrett, T.S. (2017). Generalized adaptation to dysarthric speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 3110-3117.
Borrie, S.A. & Schäfer, M.C.M. (2017). Effects of lexical and somatosensory feedback on long-term improvements in intelligibility of dysarthric speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 2151-2158.
Borrie, S.A., Baese-Berk, M. Van Engen, K., & Bent, T. (2017). A relationship between processing speech in noise and dysarthric speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, 4660-4667.
Borrie, S.A. & *Delfino, C. (2017). Conversational entrainment of vocal fry in young adult female American English speakers. Journal of Voice, 31, 513.e25–513.e32.
Muñoz, K., Ong, C., Borrie, S.A., Nelson, L.H., & Twohig, M. (2017). Audiologists’ communication behavior during hearing device management appointments. International Journal of Audiology, 56, 328-336.
Borrie, S.A., Lansford, K.L. & Barrett, T.S. (2017). Rhythm perception and its role in recognition and learning of dysrhythmic speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 561–570.
Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M., Borrie, S.A., & McKee, M. (2016). Individual differences in the perception of unfamiliar regional, nonnative, and disordered speech varieties. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140, 3775–3786.
Lansford, K.L., Borrie, S.A., & Bystricky, L. (2016). Use of crowdsourcing to assess the ecological validity of perceptual training paradigms in dysarthria.American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25, 233–239.
Borrie, S.A. & Schäfer, M.C.M. (2015). The role of somatosensory information in speech perception: Imitation improves recognition of disordered speech.Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 1708–1716.
Borrie, S.A., Lubold, N., & Pon-Barry, H. (2015). Disordered speech disrupts conversational entrainment: A study of acoustic-prosodic entrainment and communicative success in populations with communication challenges. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:1187.
Borrie, S.A. (2015). Visual information: A help or hindrance to perceptual processing of dysarthric speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, 1473–1480.
Baese-Berk, M., Bent, T., Borrie, S.A., & McKee, M. (2015). Individual differences in perception of unfamiliar speech. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Paper number 0460, 1–5.
Borrie, S.A. & Liss, J.M. (2014). Rhythm as a coordinating device: Entrainment with disordered speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57, 815–824.
Borrie, S.A., McAuliffe, M.J., Liss, J.M., O’Beirne, G.A., & Anderson, T. (2013). The role of linguistic and indexical information in improved recognition of dysarthric speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133, 474–482.
Borrie, S.A., McAuliffe, M.J., Liss, J.M., O'Beirne, G.A., & Anderson, T. (2012). A follow-up investigation into the mechanisms that underlie improved recognition of dysarthric speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, EL102–108.
Borrie, S.A., McAuliffe, M.J., Liss, J.M., Kirk, C., O'Beirne, G.A., & Anderson, T. (2012). Familiarisation conditions and the mechanisms that underlie improved recognition of dysarthric speech. Language & Cognitive Processes, 27, 1039–1055.
Borrie, S.A., McAuliffe, M.J., & Liss, J.M. (2012). Perceptual learning of dysarthric speech: A review of experimental studies. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55, 290–305.
McAuliffe, M.J., Borrie, S.A., Good, P.V., & Hughes, L.E. (2010). Consideration of the listener in the assessment and treatment of dysarthria. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language, and Hearing, 12, 16–19.
Borrie, S.A., McAuliffe, M.J., Tillard, G., Ormond, T., Anderson, T., & Hornibrook, J. (2007). Effect of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®) on articulation in speakers with Parkinson’s disease. New Zealand Journal of Speech-Language Therapy, 62, 29–36.