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  1. Bandpass Filtering and Congruence Affect Emotional Responses to Auditory and Auditory–Visual Nonspeech Stimuli

    Article • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, September 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Benjamin Hornsby, Erin M Picou

  2. Relationship Between Auditory Distraction and Emotional Dimensionality for Non-Speech Sounds

    Article • Ear & Hearing, February 2025, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  3. Relationships Between Hearing-Related and Health-Related Variables in Academic Progress of Children With Unilateral Hearing Loss

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  4. Sounds of Nature and Hearing Loss: A Call to Action

    Article • Ear & Hearing, November 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  5. Effect of Sound Genre on Emotional Responses for Adults With and Without Hearing Loss

    Article • Ear & Hearing, August 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  6. Listening-Related Fatigue in New and Experienced Adult Cochlear Implant Users

    Article • Ear & Hearing, February 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  7. A Comparison of Listening Skills of Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth While Using and Not Using Remote Microphone Systems

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou, Annalise Valle

  8. Hearing aid processing affects acoustic features important for emotional responses to sounds

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2023, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Erin M Picou

  9. Consumer Survey on Hearing Aid Benefit and Satisfaction

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  10. Listening Effort Methodologies: Challenges and Future Directions

    Article • Seminars in Hearing, March 2023, Thieme Publishing Group

    Erin M Picou

  11. How do echoes and the listening distance affect the ease of listening?

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Benjamin Hornsby, Haiping Huang, Erin M Picou

  12. Hearing Aid Benefit and Satisfaction Results from the MarkeTrak 2022 Survey: Importance of Features and Hearing Care Professionals

    Article • Seminars in Hearing, November 2022, Thieme Publishing Group

    Erin M Picou

  13. Agreement Between Caloric and Horizontal Video Head Impulse Testing in School-Aged Children Presenting With Dizziness

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, June 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  14. Spectral weighting in sound localization: Effects of competing noise

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2021, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Erin M Picou

  15. Individual Differences Offer Insight Into Clinical Recommendations for Directional and Remote Microphone Technology Use in Children

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou, Samantha J Gustafson

  16. Contralateral Routing of Signal Systems Can Improve Speech Recognition and Comprehension in Dynamic Classrooms

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  17. MarkeTrak 10 (MT10) Survey Results Demonstrate High Satisfaction with and Benefits from Hearing Aids

    Article • Seminars in Hearing, February 2020, Thieme Publishing Group

    Erin M Picou

  18. Considerations for Choosing Microphone Technologies for Students With Limited Useable Hearing Unilaterally

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, January 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  19. Degree of Hearing Loss Affects Bilateral Hearing Aid Benefits in Ecologically Relevant Laboratory Conditions

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  20. Rerouting Hearing Aid Systems for Overcoming Simulated Unilateral Hearing in Dynamic Listening Situations

    Article • Ear & Hearing, October 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  21. Feedback reduction system influence on additional gain before feedback and maximum stable gain in open-fitted hearing aids

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Erin M Picou

  22. A Potential Bias in Subjective Ratings of Mental Effort

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  23. Hearing, Emotion, Amplification, Research, and Training Workshop: Current Understanding of Hearing Loss and Emotion Perception and Priorities for Future Research

    Article • Trends in Hearing, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Erin M Picou

  24. An Evaluation of Hearing Aid Beamforming Microphone Arrays in a Noisy Laboratory Setting

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, January 2018, American Academy of Audiology

    Erin M Picou

  25. Emotional Responses to Pleasant Sounds Are Related to Social Disconnectedness and Loneliness Independent of Hearing Loss

    Article • Trends in Hearing, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Erin M Picou

  26. Child–Adult Differences in Using Dual-Task Paradigms to Measure Listening Effort

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, June 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  27. Can Hearing Aids Affect Emotional Response to Sound?

    Article • The Hearing Journal, May 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  28. The Effects of Directional Processing on Objective and Subjective Listening Effort

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  29. Directional Microphone Hearing Aids in School Environments: Working Toward Optimization

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  30. Avoiding disconnection: An evaluation of telephone options for cochlear implant users

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Erin M Picou

  31. How Hearing Loss and Age Affect Emotional Responses to Nonspeech Sounds

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2016, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  32. Do Modern Hearing Aids Meet ANSI Standards?

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, September 2016, American Academy of Audiology

    Erin M Picou

  33. The Effects of Noise and Reverberation on Listening Effort in Adults With Normal Hearing

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  34. Standardized Patients: Potential to Improve Student Training in Aural Rehabilitation

    Article • Perspectives on Public Health Issues Related to Hearing and Balance, November 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  35. Using dual-task paradigms to assess listening effort in children and adults

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2015, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Erin M Picou

  36. Evaluation of the effects of nonlinear frequency compression on speech recognition and sound quality for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Erin M Picou

  37. Directional Benefit Is Present with Audiovisual Stimuli: Limiting Ceiling Effects

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, July 2014, American Academy of Audiology

    Erin M Picou

  38. Increasing motivation changes subjective reports of listening effort and choice of coping strategy

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Erin M Picou

  39. App-titude: Smartphones as Remote Controls-for Hearing Aids

    Article • ASHA Leader, March 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou

  40. Potential Benefits and Limitations of Three Types of Directional Processing in Hearing Aids

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  41. The Effect of Changing the Secondary Task in Dual-Task Paradigms for Measuring Listening Effort

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  42. How Hearing Aids, Background Noise, and Visual Cues Influence Objective Listening Effort

    Article • Ear & Hearing, September 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  43. Speech Recognition for Bilaterally Asymmetric and Symmetric Hearing Aid Microphone Modes in Simulated Classroom Environments

    Article • Ear & Hearing, September 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  44. Efficacy of Hearing-Aid Based Telephone Strategies for Listeners with Moderate-to-Severe Hearing Loss

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, January 2013, American Academy of Audiology

    Erin M Picou

  45. Visual Cues and Listening Effort: Individual Variability

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2011, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Benjamin Hornsby, Erin M Picou

  46. Effects of Degree and Configuration of Hearing Loss on the Contribution of High- and Low-Frequency Speech Information to Bilateral Speech Understanding

    Article • Ear & Hearing, September 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  47. Comparison of Wireless and Acoustic Hearing Aid-Based Telephone Listening Strategies

    Article • Ear & Hearing, March 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  48. Survey examines popularity of real-ear probe-microphone measures

    Article • The Hearing Journal, May 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Erin M Picou

  49. Music and Hearing Protection: A Call to Action

    Article • Perspectives on Audiology, May 2009, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Erin M Picou