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M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

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Psychology

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Citations
12855
World Ranking
5369
National Ranking
362

Overview

M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller is a researcher affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their academic work spans areas within neuroscience and health professions, with a focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, speech and hearing, sensory systems, psychiatry and mental health, and general health professions.

Their research addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Vestibular and Auditory Disorders

Pichora-Fuller's publications appear frequently in journals such as:

  • Ear and Hearing
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Innovation in Aging
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Age and Ageing

Among recent papers in which Pichora-Fuller contributed are:

  • "Toronto emotional speech set (TESS)", 2020, Borealis

Other notable recent papers by colleagues in closely related areas include:

  • "Ageism and COVID-19: what does our society's response say about us?", 2020, Age and Ageing
  • "The Prevalence of Hearing, Vision, and Dual Sensory Loss in Older Canadians: An Analysis of Data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging", 2020, Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement
  • "Special Issues on Using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for Telemedicine Assessment During COVID-19", 2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • "Sex-Linked Biology and Gender-Related Research Is Essential to Advancing Hearing Health", 2022, Ear and Hearing

Their frequent collaborators include researchers such as Walter Wittich, Natalie A. Phillips, Paul Mick, Jennifer L. Campos, and J. B. Orange.

Best Publications

  • How young and old adults listen to and remember speech in noise

    M. Kathleen Pichora‐Fuller;Bruce A. Schneider;Meredyth Daneman

  • Hearing impairment and cognitive energy: the Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening (FUEL)

    M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Sophia E. Kramer;Mark A. Eckert;Brent Edwards

  • The Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model: Theoretical, empirical, and clinical advances

    Jerker Rönnberg;Thomas Lunner;Adriana Zekveld;Adriana Zekveld;Patrik Sörqvist

  • Implications of perceptual deterioration for cognitive aging research.

    Bruce A. Schneider;M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  • Effects of Age on Auditory and Cognitive Processing: Implications for Hearing Aid Fitting and Audiologic Rehabilitation

    M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Gurjit Singh

  • Effects of aging on auditory processing of speech.

    M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Pamela E. Souza

  • Cognitive aging and auditory information processing.

    M Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  • Listening in aging adults: from discourse comprehension to psychoacoustics.

    Bruce A. Schneider;Meredyth Daneman;M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  • Gap detection and the precedence effect in young and old adults.

    Bruce A. Schneider;Margaret Kathleen Pichora‐Fuller;Danielle Kowalchuk;Morag Lamb

  • The emergence of cognitive hearing science.

    Stig Arlinger;Thomas Lunner;Björn Lyxell;M Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  • Effects of hearing and vision impairments on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    Kate Dupuis;M Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Alison L Chasteen;Veronica Marchuk

  • Use of supportive context by younger and older adult listeners: balancing bottom-up and top-down information processing.

    M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  • Normative Voice Data for Younger and Older Adults

    Huiwen Goy;David N. Fernandes;M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Pascal van Lieshout

  • Processing speed and timing in aging adults: psychoacoustics, speech perception, and comprehension.

    M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  • Temporal jitter disrupts speech intelligibility: a simulation of auditory aging.

    M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Bruce A. Schneider;Ewen MacDonald;Hollis E. Pass

  • Age-Related Changes in Temporal Processing: Implications for Speech Perception

    Bruce A. Schneider;M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  • Toronto emotional speech set (TESS)

    M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Kate Dupuis

  • Combined impairments in vision, hearing and cognition are associated with greater levels of functional and communication difficulties than cognitive impairment alone: Analysis of interRAI data for home care and long-term care recipients in Ontario.

    Dawn M. Guthrie;Jacob G. S. Davidson;Nicole Williams;Jennifer Campos;Jennifer Campos

  • Priming and sentence context support listening to noise-vocoded speech by younger and older adults

    Signy Sheldon;M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Bruce A. Schneider

  • Effects of Aging and Noise on Real-Time Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence From Eye Movements

    Boaz M. Ben-David;Craig G. Chambers;Meredyth Daneman;M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce A. Schneider
Bruce A. Schneider University of Toronto
Natalie A. Phillips
Natalie A. Phillips Concordia University
Frank A. Russo
Frank A. Russo Toronto Metropolitan University
Björn Lyxell
Björn Lyxell Linköping University
Mary Rudner
Mary Rudner Linköping University
Alison L. Chasteen
Alison L. Chasteen University of Toronto
Meredyth Daneman
Meredyth Daneman University of Toronto
Patrik Sörqvist
Patrik Sörqvist University of Gaevle
Elizabeth Rochon
Elizabeth Rochon University of Toronto
Jerker Rönnberg
Jerker Rönnberg Linköping University

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