Listeners vary in their ability to understand speech in noisy environments. Hearing sensitivity, as measured by pure-tone audiometry, can only partly explain these results, and cognition has emerged as another key concept. Although cognition relates to speech perception, the exact nature of the relationship remains to be fully understood. This study investigates how different aspects of cogniti...

UNLABELLED Many children with auditory processing disorders have a high prevalence of otitis media, a middle ear alterations greatly prevalent in children with palatine and lip clefts. AIM To check the performance of children with palate cleft alone (PC) in auditory processing tests. Prospective study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty children (7 to 11 years) with CP were submitted to sound loc...

Noise-vocoded speech is commonly used to simulate the sensation after cochlear implantation as it consists of spectrally degraded speech. High individual variability exists in learning to understand both noise-vocoded speech and speech perceived through a cochlear implant (CI). This variability is partly ascribed to differing cognitive abilities like working memory, verbal skills or attention. ...

BACKGROUND Children and young people with Down's syndrome present with deficits in expressive speech and language, accompanied by strengths in vocabulary comprehension compared with non-verbal mental age. Intelligibility is particularly low, but whether speech is delayed or disordered is a controversial topic. Most studies suggest a delay, but no studies explore the relationship between cogniti...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Some studies suggest that simultaneous or sequential cochlear implantation in a short period of time offers additional benefits. There is controversy regarding the existence of an age limit after which a second implantation offers less benefit for the acquisition of communication skills. The objectives of this study were to confirm that sequential cochlear implantati...

Abstract This article focuses on designing and evaluating conversation practice in a second language (L2) with robot that employs human spoken non-verbal interaction strategies. Based an analysis of previous work semi-structured interviews L2 learners teachers, recommendations for robot-led adult at intermediate level are first defined, focused learning, the social context, conversational struc...

Training Grant MH-21001. I am especially indebted to R. Erickson for valuable discussions concerning channeling principles in music. Requests for reprints should be sent to Diana Deutsch, Department of Psychology, C-009, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 It has been argued on a number of grounds that we have difficulty in integrating rapid streams of acoustic inf...