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According to our matching algorithm, Sneha V. Bharadwaj is the likely recipient of the following grants.
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2001 |
Bharadwaj, Sneha V |
F31Activity Code Description: To provide predoctoral individuals with supervised research training in specified health and health-related areas leading toward the research degree (e.g., Ph.D.). |
Speech Production in Cochlear-Implant Users @ University of Texas Dallas
An increasing number of hearing-impaired children and adults across the world are receiving cochlear implants. Following implantation, these individuals receive significant benefits in speech perception and speech production through electrical hearing. Most importantly, they gain access to auditory feedback (self-hearing), which is crucial for speech acquisition. The objective of the proposed study is to understand how auditory feedback influences speech production. Specifically, this study will examine how speech is modified when produced in the presence or absence of auditory feedback. English and French syllables will be elicited from cochlear-implanted children and adults with their implant device turned on or off. An important strength of this study is that immediate effects of auditory deprivation on production of segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech can be measured. Also, the effects of auditory feedback on familiar and novel stimuli will be determined by examining both English and French productions of English-speaking talkers. The results will help clarify how pre- linguistically and postlinguistically deafened individuals use auditory feedback for modifying segmental and suprasegmental features of speech. The findings will help determine which aspects of speech production are modified by cochlear implant users based on feedback information from their implant. Thus, signal processing of cochlear implants could be improved to provide richer information about such speech features.
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2004 — 2006 |
Bharadwaj, Sneha V |
R03Activity Code Description: To provide research support specifically limited in time and amount for studies in categorical program areas. Small grants provide flexibility for initiating studies which are generally for preliminary short-term projects and are non-renewable. |
Speech Production in Children With Cochlear Implants @ University of Texas Dallas
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Approximately 60,000 people worldwide have received cochlear implant devices for their hearing. Following implantation, these individuals not only gain the ability to hear others, but also to hear themselves while they speak (auditory feedback). There is increasing evidence that auditory feedback (AF) is important for speech production; however, much remains to be understood regarding the role of AF, particularly for speech development. The specific aims of this research are to: (1) investigate properties of speech that are modified when cochlear-implanted children speak in the brief absence of AF; (2) compare effects of AF on speech produced by early-implanted (received cochlear implant before 3 years of age) versus late-implanted children (received implant after 5 years of age); and (3) determine the critical time interval between AF deprivation and concomitant changes in speech. These aims are part of a long-range plan to better understand the influences of speech perception on speech production. Ten early- and ten late-implanted children (ages 6-12 years) will read simple phrases in speech processor-ON and -OFF conditions. The following speech properties will be measured using acoustic analysis: vowel formant frequencies, stop consonant voice onset times, fricative spectral moments, syllable-level fundamental frequencies, and word and phrase durations. Analysis of variance with planned comparisons will be used to test the following hypotheses: (1) suprasegmental and segmental properties of speech are modified in the brief absence of AF; (2) early-implanted children show larger speech changes in the absence of AF than late-implanted children; and (3) segmental properties of speech are modified when AF is eliminated for less than a second. The results will have both clinical and theoretical implications in that they: (1) will inform clinicians of the minimal time window over which speech improvements can be expected following implantation; and (2) offer unique means of testing 'internal model'-based theories of sensory feedback during speech production.
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