Christian Brodbeck
Overview
Christian Brodbeck is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Software. His research aims to understand and measure how the brain processes speech. He is particularly interested in how people comprehend speech in realistic settings, including continuous, meaningful speech, and speech in noisy backgrounds. This work lays the foundations for better understanding how speech perception is affected in different settings and populations. For example, a frequent complaint as we age is difficulty comprehending speech in noisy environments, such as a busy restaurant. How do changes in peripheral hearing, and changes in how the brain comprehends speech, combine to cause this? How do individuals with relatively better comprehension compensate for peripheral deficits? And how can comprehension be improved, for example with cognitive training or neuromodulation?
Affiliations
- Assistant Professor, Computing and Software
Education
- PhD (psychology, cognition & perception), New York University, USA
- Licentiate (psychology, equivalent to MSc), University of Zurich
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