BACKGROUND The recently developed Gaps-In-Noise (GIN) test has provided a new diagnostic tool for the detection of temporal resolution deficits. Previous reports indicate that the GIN is a relatively sensitive tool for the diagnosis of central auditory processing disorder ([C]APD) in adult populations. PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to determine the feasibility of the GIN test i...

This study aimed at investigating the effect of visual (Cuisenaire Rods) and auditory nonsensical monosyllables using Pratt speech processing software as teaching techniques on retention of word stress. To this end, 60 high school participants made the two experimental groups of the study each having 30 students on the basis of their proficiency scores on KET (Key English Test). In one experime...

INTRODUCTION Stuttering is a speech fluency disorder, and may be associated with neuroaudiological factors linked to central auditory processing, including changes in auditory processing skills and temporal resolution. OBJECTIVE To characterize the temporal processing and long-latency auditory evoked potential in stutterers and to compare them with non-stutterers. METHODS The study included...

Presbycusis is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases of aging caused by changes in peripheral (cell loss in organ of Corti, spiral ganglion and stria vascularis) and central auditory systems (consequent to peripheral modifications or due to changes in the neurobiologic activity underlying central processing of auditory informations) [1]. Consequences are reduced sensitivity, tuni...

Our senses connect us to the outside world. They help us perceive and structure our surroundings. Hearing is probably our most important sense as it gives us access to spoken language, necessary for the development of speech, language and communication in general. Development of speech and language in children is a continuous process, in which the first years of life are of the greatest importa...

(Central) auditory processing disorder (abbreviated here APD) is defined as a deficit in the processing of auditory information, despite normal hearing thresholds, that primarily involves the auditory modality (ASHA, 2005; Jerger & Musiek, 2000). This umbrella definition encompasses a wide variety of perceptual and cognitive manifestations. APD thus cannot be reduced to a single anatomic site o...

The capability of processing rapid fluctuations in the temporal envelope of sound declines with age and this contributes to older adults' difficulties in understanding speech. Although, changes in central auditory processing during aging have been proposed as cause for communication deficits, an open question remains which stage of processing is mostly affected by age related changes. We invest...

Recent studies show that the auditory corticofugal system modulates and improves ongoing signal processing and reorganizes frequency map according to auditory experience in the central nucleus of bat inferior colliculus. However, whether all corticofugally affected collicular neurons are involved in both types of modulation has not been determined. In this study, we demonstrate that one group (...