Detection of mistuned partials in otherwise harmonic complex tones was investigated in naïve subjects of three different age groups. Signals were presented at constant sensation level to compensate for differences in hearing sensitivity and to specifically examine age-related changes in inharmonicity perception. Performance was measured under two conditions, monaural signal presentation and dic...

In dichotic listening, two competing messages are delivered to the left and right ear, respectively. Right-handed subjects tend to report hearing more frequently the message input to the right ear. This is called Right Ear Advantage (REA). When intensities and other properties of the messages are properly adjusted, subjects may have a single perception localized to the center of the head. Frequ...

This report. contains fourteen papers on a wide range of current.topics and experiments in,speech research, ranging from the relationshipbetween-speecb:and reading to questions of memory and perception of speech sounds.,The following papers are included: "How Is Language Conveyed by Speech?;" "Reading, the Linguistic Process, and Linquistic_Awareness;" "Misreading:.A. Search for Causes;" "Langu...

Perception of dichotic chords (free recall and directed recall), nonsense syllables (CVs), and three-pair digits was assessed on 24 musicians and 24 nonmusicians. On the dichotic-CV and dichotic-digit free-recall tasks, there was a significant right-ear advantage, but there were no group differences. With the dichotic-chords, free-recall condition, a significant left-ear advantage was observed ...

The use of computer-based, psychomotor testing systems for personnel selection and classification has gained popularity in the civilian and military worlds in recent years. However, several issues need to be resolved before adopting a computerized, psychomotor test. The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of alternative input devices used for the Test Of Basic Aviation Skills (TBAS)...

Several auditory processing deficits have been reported in children with dyslexia. In order to assess for the presence of a binaural integration type of auditory processing deficit, dichotic listening tests with digits, words and consonant-vowel (CV) pairs were administered to two groups of right-handed 11-year-old children, one group diagnosed with developmental dyslexia and an age-matched con...

BACKGROUND Chess is a game that involves many aspects of high level cognition such as memory, attention, focus and problem solving. Long term practice of chess can improve cognition performances and behavioral skills. Auditory memory, as a kind of memory, can be influenced by strengthening processes following long term chess playing like other behavioral skills because of common processing path...

A prior study (Bruder, G.E., Stewart, J.W., Mercier, M.A., Agosti, V., Leite, P., Donovan, S., Quitkin, F.M., 1997. Outcome of cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: relation of hemispheric dominance for verbal processing. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 106, 138-144.) found left hemisphere advantage for verbal dichotic listening was predictive of clinical response to cognitive behavioral ...

Sound processing in the human auditory system is complex and highly non-linear, whereas hearing aids (HAs) still rely on simplified descriptions of or loss to restore hearing. Even though standard HA amplification strategies succeed restoring audibility faint sounds, they fall short providing targeted treatments for sensorineural deficits adverse listening conditions. These shortcomings current...