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Master's Theses

2011 TO PRESENT

2023

CLASS OF 2023

Melina Markotjohn
Title: Post-Auricular Orientation of Auditory Attention in Sound Field versus Virtual Sound Space
NSGS, NSERC, MITACS, Research NS Scotia Scholar Award
Supervisor
: Steve Aiken

Sarah Ripley
Title: Coding-In-Noise Deficits After Exposure to Noise Mimicking Real-Life Parameters
Supervisor: Jian Wang

 

 

2021

CLASS OF 2021

Keara Boyce
Title: Can You See What I Mean? The Effects of Iconic Gestures on Early Word Learning
Killam Pre-Doctoral Scholarship; SSHRC; NSGS
Supervisor: Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird

Juliana McLaren
Title: Have You Heard 黄色直播 Hearing Loss, Hearing Aid Use, And Cognitive Decline? Relationships, Mechanisms, and a Proposed Investigation Using Event-Related Potentials
CIHR; Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Memorial Fellowship
Supervisor:  Steven Aiken

 

2020

CLASS OF 2020

Talia Kowalchuk
Title: What Trans鈥 Folks Talk 黄色直播 When They Talk 黄色直播 Voice: Learning 黄色直播 Voice Feminization on Reddit
Supervisor: Michael Kiefte

Parnell Davis MacNevin
Title: Development of an Optimized Method for the Clinical Assessment of Binaural Function
NSHRF Scotia Scholar Award + Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship; CIHR Award
Supervisor: Steven Aiken


2018

GRADUATED 2018

Lisa Beck 
Title: "Investigating Skilled Reading in School-Aged Children: An EEG Study"
NS Graduate Scholarship
Supervisors: Steven Aiken and 

Peter Cahill 

Title: 鈥淓xploring the Complex Syntax of School-Aged Children: The Effects of Age, Discourse and Bilingualism鈥
Killam, SSHRC & NS Graduate Scholarship
Supervisor: Patricia Cleave


Eleanor Campbell 

Title: "Verb Fast Mapping and Imitation in Children with Down Syndrome"
NS Graduate Scholarship
Supervisor: Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird

Sarah Martin 
Title: 鈥淏ilingual Outcomes for a Child with Down Syndrome in the Early French Immersion Program鈥
NSHRF Scotia Scholar Award and NS Graduate Scholarship
Supervisor: Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird

Kegan Stephen 
Title: 鈥淐hanges in Cochlear Function and Synaptic Protein Expression in Noise Induced Cochlear Synaptopathy鈥
CIHR Scholarship and NS Graduate Scholarshis
Supervisor: Jian Wang 


2016

GRADUATED 2016

Janine Fitzpatrick 
Title: 鈥淰erbal working memory and discourse comprehension in healthy older adults鈥
NSHRF Scotia Scholar Award
Supervisors: Janet Ingles and 

Emily McGuire 
Title: 鈥淰iolating the phonotactic properties of American Sign Language (ASL) to create illegal pseudosigns鈥
NS Graduate Scholarship
Supervisors:  and Steven Aiken



2015

GRADUATED 2015

Allison MacEacheron 
Title: "Periodicity envelope encoding: Evidence for two sites of introduction鈥
Supervisor: Steven Aiken

Caroline Jamison 
Title: 鈥淧reliminary investigation of the utility of the N400 for passively estimating speech hearing ability in noise"
Supervisors: Steven Aiken and Lauren Petley


2014

GRADUATED 2014

Nathanael Crawford 
Title: 鈥淣euronal adaptation and formant transition direction in vowels: An MMN study鈥
Supervisor: Steven Aiken

Jennifer Finbow 
Title: 鈥淐omparison of Baha and CROS hearing aid in single-sided deafness鈥
NSHRF Scholarship
Supervisor: Rachel Caissie

Lara Georgis
Title: 鈥淓ffects of spectral distortion on speech intelligibility鈥
Supervisor: Steven Aiken

Bonita Squires
Title: 鈥淟anguage, literacy and classroom participation of students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick鈥
CIHR and NSHRF Scholarships
Supervisor: Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird

 

2013

GRADUATED 2013

Kathleen Chiddenton 
Title: 鈥淓xamining listeners' ability to perceive vowel-inherent spectral changes鈥
SSHRC Scholarship
Supervisor: Michael Kiefte

Andree-Anne Morrissey 
Title: "The Relationship between leisure activity participation, language, and literacy in adults with Down Syndrome"
SSHRC Scholarship
Supervisor: Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird


2012

GRADUATED 2012

Jessica Andrus 
Title: "The perception and neural representation of individual harmonies in a vowel sound: A behavioural and auditory brainstem evoked response study"
NSERC and NSHRF Scholarships
Supervisors: Steven Aiken and Michael Kiefte


Courtney Cain Porter 
Title: "Voice quality and gender identification: Acoustic and perceptual analysis"
Supervisor: Michael Kiefte

Jennifer Mulle 
Title: "In search of an electrophysiological correlate to between-channel modulation gap detection"
Supervisor: Steven Aiken

 

2011

GRADUATED 2011

Sarah Dhooge 
Title: 鈥淚nternal state language and theory of mind development in children with autism spectrum disorder鈥
Training in Autism Research Program Grant, CIHR and NSHRF Scholarships
Supervisor: Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird

Nicole Jackson 
Title: 鈥淏inaural integration by cochlear-implant users during voice matching tasks鈥
CIHR and NSHRF Scholarships
Supervisor: Steven Aiken