SARAH HARGUS FERGUSON

Dr. Sarah Hargus Ferguson is an audiologist and speech scientist who has been at the University of Utah since 2010. Her research is focused on speech understanding in older adults, and how speech acoustic characteristics affect that understanding. She is especially interested talker factors such as speaking style, dialect, and foreign accent. In addition to speech understanding, recent work in Dr. Ferguson's lab has explored listeners' perception of speech indexical factors such as talker age, gender, and emotional state.