Speech impairment is a frequent and often serious symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD), characterized by a disorder of phonation, articulation and prosody. While research on the pathogenesis of the prominent limb motor symptoms has made considerable progress in recent years, the pathophysiology of PD speech impairment is still incompletely understood. To investigate the neural correlates of spee...

Listeners use lexical or visual context information to recalibrate auditory speech perception. After hearing an ambiguous auditory stimulus between /aba/ and /ada/ coupled with a clear visual stimulus (e.g., lip closure in /aba/), an ambiguous auditory-only stimulus is perceived in line with the previously seen visual stimulus. What remains unclear, however, is what exactly listeners are recali...

This study tries to explore English language learning conditions of Deaf and Hard Hearing (DHH) students in Turkey worldwide. To this end, descriptive research method was carried out find the characteristics DHH learners their ways communicationand certain foreign teaching methods and/or techniques recommended for group learners. Within framework these objectives, investigated worldwide through...

People can produce drawings of specific entities (e.g., Garfield), as well general categories "cat"). What explains this ability to such varied even highly familiar object concepts? We hypothesized that drawing objects at different levels abstraction depends on both sensory information and representational goals, intended portray a recently seen preserve more detail than those represent categor...

Objective(s): Behavioral and neuroimaging studies have shown that transcranial direct current stimulation, as a non-invasive neuromodulatory technique, beyond regional effects can modify functionally interconnected remote cortical and subcortical areas. In this study, we hypothesized that the induced changes in cortical excitability following the application of cathodal or anodal tDCS over the ...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an active field of research due to its large number applications and the proliferation interfaces or computing devices that can support speech processing. However, bulk are based on well-resourced languages overshadow under-resourced ones. Yet, ASR represents undeniable means promote such languages, especially when designing human-to-human human-to-machine ...

During cued speech and movement, information propagates from primary sensory areas, through association areas, to primary and supplementary motor and language areas. Traditionally, the neural activity in each region has been probed independently at the level of individual neurons or small neuronal populations. This approach suffers from a lack of information about how different neuronal populat...

Seeing the moving face of the talker permits better detection of speech in noise compared to not seeing their face. We report on an experiment that examined the basis of this AV facilitation effect. This work follows up research by [1] and [2] that developed a procedure for demonstrating an AV speech detection effect and [3] that showed that this facilitation occurred regardless of whether part...