How We Hear

Dr. Emma Holmes is an Associate Professor at University College London (UCL), and Principal Investigator of the Cognitive Hearing Lab in the Department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences at UCL. She completed a B.A. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of York. During her Ph.D., Emma examined brain responses when people direct attention to speech when competing speech is present, and compared these responses between people with and without hearing loss. Emma's current research interests include how cognitive factors-such as attention and prior knowledge-affect speech perception in people with and without hearing loss, and the impacts of hearing loss on social participation. Alongside her research, Emma teaches Perception, Attention, and Learning to first-year undergraduate students, and teaches an advanced course on Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.Dr. Adele Goman is a Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University and Associate Faculty of the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health. During her undergraduate degree, she undertook advanced modules in hearing science and completed research projects in the auditory perception laboratories, which led her to pursue a Ph.D. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of York, in which she investigated the clinical and cost effectiveness of interventions for adults with severe to profound hearing loss. She then completed postdoctoral training with a focus on hearing loss epidemiology, public health and clinical trials at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Her current research interests include the individual and societal impact of hearing loss and hearing loss interventions on health and wellbeing, and addressing barriers and inequalities in hearing care and hearing technology utilisation.

• 1: How do we hear sounds? 2: Perceptual characteristics of sound 3: Perceiving multiple sounds 4: Perceiving speech 5: Perceiving speech in noisy places 6: Perceiving music 7: Hearing and vision 8: Hearing difficulties