Biography:
Hello everyone! My name is Madison and I am from Madison Connecticut. I am currently a junior at Penn State studying communication sciences and disorders. Outside of research, I am involved in my sorority as well as NSSHLA.
This summer, I will be traveling to Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands to complete my research under Dr. Susanne Brouwer. While there, I will be researching how language is perceived in the presence of background speech. While studies addressing this phenomenon have been completed in the past, we plan to incorporate reaction time as a variable. By including reaction time, we hope to obtain a better understanding of how much background noise can impact comprehension of English speech.