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Professor Sven Mattys is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of York, where he has held the rank of Professor since 2012. Previously, he held positions at the University of Bristol and conducted postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University and the House Ear Institute. His research focuses on experimental psycholinguistics, particularly the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying speech recognition in adverse conditions. Key areas include speech segmentation, lexical processing, and the impact of cognitive load on auditory perception.
Education: PhD in Psychology from Stony Brook University (1997), BA in Psychology from Université Libre de Bruxelles (1993).
Research interests span speech perception across populations (e.g., hearing-impaired adults, infants), with a focus on how listeners adapt to noisy environments, process linguistic interference, and manage cognitive load. Major grants include ESRC funding for 'Split listening' (2023-2025) and Leverhulme Trust support for 'Cognitive listening' (2019-2023). Supervised PhD students include Emily Rice and Alex Mepham.
Recent publications explore topics like pupillometry in linguistic interference (2025), prosodic disambiguation (2024), and the role of mood in listening effort (2024). His work integrates behavioral experiments with neuroimaging and computational modeling to understand perceptual and cognitive challenges in speech processing.
