background and aim: attention is an important cognitive process that is necessary for educational purposes. blind people are deprived from the most widely used human sense, the sense of vision. there are reports that blind individuals have a significantly better performance in attentional tasks, as compared with normal subjects. the purpose of this study was to evaluate sustained auditory atten...

For thousands of years, humans have striven to express and communicate their feelings by singing and playing musical instruments. In order to create new sounds, instruments were invented requiring novel and frequently complex movement patterns. Sensory-motor skills of musicians have some specific qualities: learning begins at an early age in a playful atmosphere. Routines for stereotyped moveme...

In an attempt to assess objectively the integrity of the auditory pathways in 30 patients with definite multiple sclerosis (MS), an audiometric evaluation was performed and auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) were obtained. Stressing the auditory system by increasing the stimulation rate showed some enhancement in the identification of MS. 24 (RO%) patients had an abnormal ABR along with c...

Background: A common concern in some cochlear-implanted children is the lack of desired progress in auditory and listening skills. Such a concern remains despite proper verbal processor programming, additional disabilities, and continuous participation in hearing rehabilitation programs. A more detailed assessment of pathways and centers of the auditory processing at the lower end of the brain ...

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...

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 ...

abstract:background : hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most common cause of congenital sensory neuronal hearing loss. these patients are screened by auditory brainstem response (abr) test at bilirubin levels higher than 1% of gestational weight. aim: to determine whether hyperbilirubinemia less than 1% of gestational weight could induce hearing loss and abnormal auditory brainstem response (abr...

results: the average of dyssynchrony in eight cycles showed a positive correlation with dyssynchrony in target beat rr1/rr2 = 1. average of dyssynchrony in target beat was 46.77 msec, and average of 8 cycle was = 47.701, (p value = 0.776, pearson linear correlation 0.769). objectives: we proposed to evaluate intraventricular mechanical dyssynchrony by measuring time-to-peak systolic velocity be...