Understanding how children process speech in noisy environments is essential for designing effective educational and therapeutic interventions for speech and hearing challenges. Every day, children spend a large part of their time in classrooms, which represent acoustically complex environments, including competing talkers and activity-based noise. Listening in such settings is particularly demanding for children, as […]

How do we focus on one sound source while ignoring distractions in a noisy environment? This thesis investigates auditory selective attention in a virtual reality classroom, using immersive technology to study listening behavior in settings that resemble everyday life more closely than traditional approaches. An established audio-only attention task was transferred into a VR classroom […]