Background: expressive vocabulary and auditory processing in children with phonological disorder. Aim: to compare the performance of children with phonological disorder in a vocabulary test with the parameters indicated by the same test and to verify a possible relationship between this performance and auditory processing deficits. Method: participants were 12 children diagnosed with phonologic...

Objectives: This study examined the relationship between working and short-term memory performance, and their effects on cochlear implant outcomes (speech perception and speech production) in cochlear implanted children aged 7-13 years. The study also compared the memory performance of cochlear implanted children with their normal hearing peers. Methods: Thirty-one cochlear impl...

The inferior colliculus (IC) is a major processing center in the ascending auditory pathway. The role of the IC in the descending efferent auditory system is less clear. Although the IC central nucleus (ICC) is the major relay station for the ascending auditory pathways, the IC's cortex receives its main input from the neocortex and nonauditory sources. The goal of this study was to determine i...

Objective: The results of cochlear implantation in patients that present with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) patients have been variably reported. The effectiveness of the treatment modality varies in such patients. Hearing rehabilitation in this group of patients has been very challenging. Considerable controversy exists whether to provide conventional amplification (hearing aids...

BACKGROUND Age-related alterations in the clinical characteristics and performance of severity scoring systems for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are unknown. METHODS Consecutive patients with CAP presenting to the emergency department were prospectively studied. Patients were classified as younger adults (age 18-64 years), elderly (age 65-84 years) and very old subjects (age ≥85 years). ...

Prevention of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (d/AD) requires interventions that slow the disease process prior to symptom onset. To develop such interventions, one needs metrics that assess pre-symptomatic disease progression. Familiar measures of progression include cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biochemical and imaging analyses, as well as cognitive testing. Changes in the latter can sometime...

Developing rating scales for assessing interactional performance is demanding since it is a relatively complicated procedure. The present study investigated the psychometric characteristics of the CAP rating scale (Wang, 2015) for assessing interactional competence at micro-level. To this end, 160 Iranian intermediate EFL learners were selected based on their performance on TOEFL iBT test from ...

Listeners retune the boundaries between phonetic categories to adjust to individual speakers' productions. Lexical information, for example, indicates what an unusual sound is supposed to be, and boundary retuning then enables the speaker's sound to be included in the appropriate auditory phonetic category. In this study, it was investigated whether lexical knowledge that is known to guide the ...