Biography
Jing Shen is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Temple University. She received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from University of California, San Diego and had her postdoctoral training in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University. Dr. Shen is a member of the American Auditory Society and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Her research has been supported by National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders.
Dr. Shen directs the Speech Perception and Cognition (SPAC) Lab at Temple University. The work of the lab is motivated by the overarching goal of improving speech communication ability in older adults. A common complaint from many older adults is difficulty in perceiving speech under adverse conditions, such as in noisy environments and/or group conversations. The research in SPAC Lab addresses this problem based on multiple lines of projects:
- Perceptual mechanisms in older adults’ speech perception under adverse conditions and the variability across individual listeners
- Speech perception outcome measures that capture online processing of speech in realistic communication scenarios
- Interplay between hearing loss and cognitive difficulty in the aging cohort and its impact on clinical services
- PhD, Experimental Psychology, University of California San Diego
- MS, Psychology (Social and Personality), East China Normal University
- BA, Political Science (Minor: Psychology), East China Normal University
Education
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
CSCD 2303 | Foundations in Hearing Science | Undergraduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Shen, J. (2021). Older listeners’ perception of speech with strengthened and weakened dynamic pitch cues in background noise. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(2), 348-358. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00116.
Shen, J., Sherman, M., & Souza, P. (2020). Test Administration Methods and Cognitive Test Scores in Older Adults with Hearing Loss. Gerontology, 66(1), 24-32. doi: 10.1159/000500777.
Shen, J. & Souza, P. (2019). The ability to glimpse dynamic pitch in noise by younger and older listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(3), EL232-EL237. doi: 10.1121/1.5126021.
Shen, J. & Souza, P. (2018). On dynamic pitch benefit for speech recognition in speech masker. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(OCT). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01967.
Shen, J. & Souza, P. (2017). Do older listeners with hearing loss benefit from dynamic pitch for speech recognition in noise? American Journal of Audiology, 26(3S), 462-466. doi: 10.1044/2017_AJA-16-0137.
Shen, J. & Souza, P. (2017). The effect of dynamic pitch on speech recognition in temporally modulated noise. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(9), 2725-2739. doi: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-16-0389.
Ward, K., Shen, J., Souza, P., & Grieco-Calub, T. (2017). Age-Related Differences in Listening Effort during Degraded Speech Recognition. Ear and Hearing, 38(1), 74-84. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000355.