You are cordially invited to attend the Diane Kewley-Port Lecture hosted by the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and the SPHS PhD Organization.
Monday, April 12
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Speech and Hearing Building, Room C141
Dr. Lynne A. Werner, Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington
Development of Auditory Behavior
Biography:
Lynne Werner received her Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago. She has been on the faculty of the University of Washington since 1986. Dr. Werner developed the first successful method for measuring behavioral sensitivity to sound in infants as young as 1 month of age. The results of this work have shown that hearing development is affected by the development of higher level processes such as attention. Her research interests include infant hearing capacity and the mechanisms of hearing development. The implications of the work extend from understanding and remediating the effects of early hearing impairment, to understanding the development of speech perception, to understanding mature hearing.
Abstract:
Hearing and auditory behavior change throughout infancy, childhood and even adolescence. Early in life, these changes involve maturation of the neural representation of the basic characteristics of sound. In later infancy and the preschool years, children become more selective in their processing of sound. During this period, the ability to segregate one sound from others and to attend to that sound while ignoring others improves. During childhood and adolescence, the flexibility of sound processing increases. Children begin to alter their perceptual strategies in response to changes in the environment in which communication takes place. An important challenge for researchers and clinicians is to understand how the quality of auditory experiences in infancy and childhood influences the development of these perceptual strategies.
Funded by: IU Student Association Grant, SPHS PhD Organization, and Department of SPHS
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