background: acoustic noise is one of the universal pollutants of modern society. although the high level of noise adverse effects on human hearing has been known for many years, non-auditory effects of noise such as effects on cognition, learning, memory and reading, especially on children, have been less considered. factors which have negative impact on these features can also have a negative ...

background and aim: research shows that 13-18 percent of the people suffer from tinnitus, almost 5 percent of which, have chronic or bothersome tinnitus. chronic tinnitus may be accompanied by anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impairment in cognitive functions such as memory and attention. the purpose of this study was to compare the verbal auditory memory and divided attention between individ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the general demographics of children who had Auditory-Verbal therapy and to identify child and family factors associated with differences between those children for whom Auditory-Verbal therapy led to success and those for whom it did not. SETTING Private tertiary care facility. POPULATION Children who had hearing losses ranging from mild to profound. INTERVENTION A...

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 pat...

a b s t r a c t introduction:we investigated differential role of cortical and subcortical regions in verbal and non-verbal sound processing in ten patients who were native speakers of persian with unilateral cortical and/or unilateral and bilateral subcortical lesions and 40 normal speakers as control subjects. methods: the verbal tasks included monosyllabic, disyllabic dichotic and diotic tas...

The new millennium has brought about great innovation and advancement in hearing technology, early detection and intervention. This in turn has altered expectations of what children with hearing impairment are really capable of in terms of listening, developing spoken language, and academic and social performance. In Singapore, with Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in place, babies with hear...

how to cite this article: khosravi fard e, keelor jl, akbarzadeh bagheban ar, keith rw. comparison of the ravlt and digit test with typically achieving and gifted students. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):26-37. abstract objective in this study, different kinds of memory were evaluated using rey auditory verbal learning (ravlt) test and were compared between two groups of typical and gi...