background :older adults with cerebrovascular accident (cva) show evidence of auditory and speech perception problems. in present study, it was examined whether these problems are due to impairments of concurrent auditory segregation procedure which is the basic level of auditory scene analysis and auditory organization in auditory scenes with competing sounds. methods : concurrent auditory seg...

Nowadays, three kinds of theories still discuss the nature of speech units: auditory theories (Diehl, Lotto, and Holt 2004), motor theories (Galantucci, Fowler, and Turvey 2006) and perceptuo-motor theories (Schwartz et al. 2012). Briefly, supporters of the auditory (resp. motor, perceptuo-motor) theories claim that speech units are represented in the brain by auditory (resp. motor, perceptuo-m...

Previous research on the perception of foreign accent has largely focused on speaker-dependent factors such as Age of Learning and Length of Residence which are specific to an individual speaker. Factors that are independent of particular speakers and their language learning history have also been shown to affect perception of second language speech. The present study examined two speaker-indep...

HYPOTHESIS That early word learning and speech perception skills have different sensitive periods and that very early implantation may affect later vocabulary outcomes more than speech perception outcomes. BACKGROUND Several studies have found that deaf children who receive cochlear implants before 3 years of age tend to have better speech perception outcomes than children implanted later. Re...

While functional neuroimaging studies demonstrate that multiple cortical regions play a key role in audio-visual integration of speech, whether cross-modal speech interactions only depend on well-known auditory and visuo-facial modalities or, rather, might also be triggered by other sensory sources remains unexplored. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study examined the n...

Sensorimotor integration (SMI) across the dorsal stream enables online monitoring of speech. Jenson et al. (2014) used independent component analysis (ICA) and event related spectral perturbation (ERSP) analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) data to describe anterior sensorimotor (e.g., premotor cortex, PMC) activity during speech perception and production. The purpose of the current study wa...

OBJECTIVE The overall objective of this study was to relate electrically evoked potentials recorded from different levels of the auditory pathway with behavioral measures obtained from adult cochlear implant subjects. The hypothesis was that adult recipients of cochlear implants who have open-set speech perception and those recipients with no open-set speech perception would differ in their neu...

Speech production difficulties are apparent in people who stutter (PWS). PWS also have difficulties in speech perception compared to controls. It is unclear whether the speech perception difficulties in PWS are independent of, or related to, their speech production difficulties. To investigate this issue, functional MRI data were collected on 13 PWS and 13 controls whilst the participants perfo...

The research reported in this paper uses novel stimuli to study how speech perception is influenced by information presented to ear and eye. Auditory and visual sources ofinformation (syllables) were synthesized and presented in isolation or in factorial combination. A five-step contilllium between the syllables /bal and Idalwas synthesized along both auditory and visual dimensions, by varying ...

For many years the human auditory system has been an inspiration for developers of automatic speech recognition systems because of its ability to interpret speech accurately in a wide variety of difficult acoustical environments. This paper discusses the application of physiologically-motivated approaches to signal processing that facilitate robust automatic speech recognition in environments w...