Matthew Winn

he/him

mwinn@umn.edu

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

115 Shevlin Hall

164 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae

Collegiate Affiliation

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

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Personal webpage

My work is all about understanding how hearing loss affects people, both in terms of speech communication and participation in relationships and society.

I am an audiologist and hearing scientist with training in speech science, binaural hearing and linguistics. This background enables me to ask questions about listening effort and speech processing and how it impacts the psychological experience of communication. My lab’s work on listening effort is funded by the National Institutes of Health; we use the measurement of pupil dilation to evaluate how effortful it is for people to understand speech in different listening situations.

In addition to this research, I have developed open-source solutions for speech stimulus generation for experiments involving phonetic categorization and cue weighting, as well as analysis tools for pupillometry.

In addition to the professional work described above, I am also dedicated to improving communication skills for young scientists, and improving inclusion of under-represented people in the sciences. If you are a student/postdoc who wants an advocate in these areas, please feel free to reach out to me.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy: Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, 2011
Doctor of Audiology: Clinical Audiology, University of Maryland, 2010
Bachelor of Arts: Psychology, Philosophy, University of Delaware, 2005

Specialties

Audiology
Cochlear implants
Speech perception
Auditory perception
Binaural hearing
Phonetics

Publications

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Publications

Winn, M.B., (2016). Rapid release from listening effort resulting from semantic context, and effects of spectral degradation and cochlear implants. Trends in Hearing, 20, 1-17. doi: 10.1177/2331216516669723
Winn, M.B., Wendt, D., Koelewijn, T., Kuchinsky, S. (2018). Best practices in using pupillometry to measure listening effort: an introduction for those who want to get started. Trends in Hearing, 22, 1-32. doi: 10.1177/2331216518800869
DiNino, M., Wright, R., Winn, M.B., Bierer, J.A. (2016). Vowel and consonant confusion patterns resulting from spectral manipulations in vocoded stimuli designed to replicate poor electrode-neuron interfaces in cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(6), 4404–4418.
Winn, M.B., Won, J.H., Moon, I.J. (2016). Assessment of spectral and temporal resolution in cochlear implant users using psychoacoustic discrimination and speech cue categorization. Ear and Hearing, 37(6):e377–e390. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000328
Winn, M.B. & Litovsky, R.Y. (2015) Using speech sounds to test functional spectral resolution in listeners with cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, 1430-1442. doi: 10.1121/1.4908308
Winn, M.B., Edwards, J.R., and Litovsky, R.Y. (2015). The impact of auditory spectral resolution on listening effort revealed by pupil dilation. Ear and Hearing. 36(4):e153-65. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000145
Chrabaszcz, A.V., Winn, M.B., Lin, C.Y., & Idsardi, W.J. (2014). Acoustic Cues to Perception of Word Stress by English, Mandarin and Russian Speakers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57, 1468-1479. doi:10.1044/2014_JSLHR-L-13-0279
Winn, M.B., Rhone, A.E., Chatterjee, M., & Idsardi, W.J. (2013). Auditory and visual context effects in phonetic perception by normal-hearing listeners and listeners with cochlear implants. Frontiers in Psychology: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, article 824, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00824
Winn, M.B., Chatterjee, M., & Idsardi, W.J. (2013). The roles of voice onset time and F0 in stop consonant voicing perception: Effects of masking noise and low-pass filtering. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 56, 1097-1107. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0086)
Winn, M.B., Chatterjee, M., & Idsardi, W.J. (2012). The use of acoustic cues for phonetic identification: Effects of spectral degradation and electric hearing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, 1465-1479. doi: 10.1121/1.3672705
Winn, M.B., Moore, A. (2018). Pupillometry reveals that context benefit in speech perception can be disrupted by later-occurring sounds, especially in listeners with cochlear implants. Trends in Hearing, 22, 1-22. doi: 10.1177/2331216518808962
Winn, M.B., Kan, A., Litovsky, R. (2019). Temporal dynamics and uncertainty in binaural hearing revealed by anticipatory eye movements. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, 676–691.
Winn, M.B. & Teece, K. (2020). Slower speaking rate reduces listening effort and increases benefit of contextual cues among listeners with cochlear implants. Ear & Hearing, published ahead of print. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000958
Winn, M.B & Moore, A.N. (2020). Acoustic cues used for accommodating gender-related voice differences heard by listeners with cochlear implants and with normal hearing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, 496-510.
Winn, M.B. (2020). Manipulation of voice onset time in speech stimuli: A tutorial and flexible Praat script. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, 852-866.

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Awards

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Awards

Scholar of the College, The Scholar of the College award is presented annually by the College of Liberal Arts to recognize and celebrate outstanding achievement by faculty in the college. Scholars of the College are chosen on the basis of past accomplishments and contributions in the areas of scholarly research or other creative work, teaching, and service, and the promise of further achievement. Scholars of the College are faculty members whose scholarship and/or creative work has had, and continues to have, a significant impact on their field(s). They are scholars who have taken intellectual risks and whose research/ creative work has achieved a high level of distinction, and has transformed, or promises to transform, the ways in which knowledge is constructed in a particular discipline or set of disciplines. , 2021

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