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AGING AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION:
AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
CONFERENCE
Indiana University, Bloomington
October 7-10, 2007
The goal of this second conference on Aging and
Speech Communication is to integrate auditory and
cognitive approaches to understanding age-related
declines in speech communication. The conference
will bring together researchers working around the
world in the areas of cognitive processing and
sensory perceptual processing, especially hearing,
to share their latest research findings with regard
to aging and speech communication. Speech
communication is an ability that involves both
sensory encoding of acoustic information and the
processing of that information by higher cognitive
centers. Aging is known to impact both the
peripheral sense of hearing and some cognitive
functions that may be critical for processing the
peripherally degraded auditory input. By bringing
together scholars actively involved in research in
both of these areas, it is hoped that further
progress will be made in understanding and
remedying the speech-communication difficulties of
older adults.
The conference program and information about
registration, call for poster submissions, student
scholarships, travel, and local arrangements are
available at the conference website http://www.indiana.edu/~ascpost/index.htm
Conference Advisory Committee:
Larry E. Humes, Indiana University (Chair)
Judy R. Dubno, Medical University of South
Carolina
Stuart Gatehouse, MRC Hearing Research Institute,
Glasgow, Scotland
Sandra Gordon-Salant, University of Maryland
Louise Hickson, University of Queensland, Australia
Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, University of
Toronto-Mississauga, Canada
Mitchell Sommers, Washington University
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