Principle Investigators: apl. Prof. Dr. Maria Klatte, Prof. Dr. Thomas Lachmann

Source of funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Partners: RWTH Aachen, Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics (Prof. Dr. J. Fels); TU Ilmenau (Prof. Dr. A. Raake)

Grant amount RPTU: 48.000 €

Funding Period: 36 months

Project Period: 2021 - 2023

In the framework of the priority program AUDICTIVE („Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments“) of the DFG (German Research Foundation), EcOClass-VR investigates cognitive performance in classroom-like settings using audiovisual virtual reality. In our sub-project, we explore children´s and adults´ language comprehension in increasingly complex audiovisual classroom scenarios. In addition to word-in-noise perception, we use a complex listening task requiring identification, storage, processing and acting-out of oral instructions. We stepwise increase the reality of the audiovisual classroom scenario and the actions to-be-performed by the participants.

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