Faith Chiu
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

• PhD Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, University College London, UK, 2014-2018
• MA Phonetics, University College London, UK, 2011-2012
• MA Literatures of Modernity (Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism), Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 2009-2010

Career

2018-present Research Associate, University of York

Research

Overview

The Effect of Cognitive Load on Speech Perception

Projects

I am working as a research associate on Prof Sven Mattys’ ESRC-funded project “The Effect of Cognitive Load on Speech Perception”. We define cognitive load as any listening challenges arising not from a distortion of the speech signal but from the recruitment of processing resources due to concurrent attentional or mnemonic demands. We are particularly interested in low-level mechanisms by which cognitive load interferes with speech perception. The project draws on psychometric and identification paradigms in speech and hearing research.

Research group(s)

Speech Lab; Psycholinguistics Research Group

Publications

Selected publications

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=DxFRmJQAAAAJ