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"Listening in noise with older native and non-native speakers: The time-line for segregating speech from noise, real-time lexical processing of spoken-words, and the identification of verbal emotions."

Coordinatore	INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER (IDC) HERZLIYA    more  Organization address address: Kanfei Nesharim city: HERZLIYA postcode: 46150 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Eric Cognome: Zimmerman Email: send email Telefono: +972 9 9527676 Fax: +972 9 9527268
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Israel [IL]
Totale costo	100˙000 €
EC contributo	100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG
Funding Scheme	MC-CIG
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-10-01   -   2016-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER (IDC) HERZLIYA  Organization address address: Kanfei Nesharim city: HERZLIYA postcode: 46150 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Eric Cognome: Zimmerman Email: send email Telefono: +972 9 9527676 Fax: +972 9 9527268	IL (HERZLIYA)	coordinator	100˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'By 2025, a quarter of Europeans will be over 65 years old. In everyday life, older adults need to communicate efficiently, yet they often find it more difficult than younger adults to attend to target speech when other people are talking, specifically when operating in their second language. This could be the outcome of age-related cognitive and/or sensory changes. To address these issues, the current research proposal highlights three themes which contrast the performance of younger and older, native and non-native speakers, in two types of noise, speech-spectrum and a multi-talker babble: 1. The time-line needed to segregate target speech from noise. Listeners are asked to repeat spoken words presented in different delays between the onset of a spoken word and a noise masker. Four signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) are employed to determine the SNR for 50% thresholds in each delay. Functions relating thresholds to onset-delay describe the time-line for stream segregation. 2. Real-time lexical processing of spoken words using eye-tracking. Listeners follow spoken instructions referring to depicted objects, e.g., 'Look at the candle'. Eye movements capture listeners' ability to differentiate the target (candle) from a phonological (candy) or semantic alternative (lamp) as the word unfolds in time. 3. Identification of emotions in speech. Lexical sentences, associated with one of five emotions (anger, fear, sadness, happiness and neutral) are recorded spoken in these five distinct prosodies, creating all possible combinations of emotions across both dimensions. Listeners are asked to rate the degree to which each token expressed each emotion in the lexical content, prosody or both, revealing the interplay between the two dimensions, and the ability to selectively attend to one of them. Finally, each theme generates contrasting predictions for cognitive and sensory aging theories, and suggests possible strategies that can mitigate the outlined communication difficulties.'