Development of automatic hearing threshold detection of specific frequencies in young infants using eye tracking
Person photo Prof Francisco Lacerda
Phonetics (Department of Linguistics)
Description:
A prototype of an automatic hearing threshold test for young infants using eye tracking is being developed at the Phonetics Lab at SU in close collaboration with the Karolinska Universitetssjukhus (project leader: Inger Uhlén) and Tobii Technologies. The infant hearing test is based on the traditional visual reinforcement audiometry, but uses eye tracking to make the test faster, objective and automatic compared to clinical practice today. The project's aim is that the infant's response to the auditory stimuli controls the testing progress and narrows the frequencies and their thresholds down to an individual audiogram with significance values for each established threshold.
  
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Dr Iris-Corinna Schwarz
My research interests lie within speech perception development and early language acquisition. This involves cross-language studies with English and Swedish language environment infants using foreign speech stimuli (e.g. Thai, Portuguese) as well as speech-like stimuli such as rotated speech or a ...