MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitA paper describing how ‘Voice Familiarity Aids Speech Perception in the Presence of a Competing Voice’ – or how to tune into, or ignore, your loved ones – has recently been published in the journal Psychological Science. Bob Carlyon of the CBU who co-authored the paper says “We’ve shown that it’s easier to suppress the […]
Making sense of noisy speech
Adding subtitles is a well known way to make difficult to hear speech easier to understand – e.g. TV subtitles provide a huge benefit to hearing impaired individuals and are commonly added to interviews with heavily accented speakers of English. However, these subtitles don’t only help speech understanding, they also provide an illusion that the […]
