Forty-five subjects with sharply sloping sensorineural high-frequency hearing losses were examined for comprehension with a tape containing sentences that had been time-compressed (250 words/min), interrupted, (50 msec on-50 msec off), and masked with speech-spectrum noise (+2 dB S/N) in that order. All subjects yielded normal speech reception thresholds, and generally normal scores on the Nort...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between cosleeping and sleep problems in cultures with very different sleep practices. DESIGN Interview study. SETTING Families in urban Japan and the United States identified through pediatric and other professional contacts. PARTICIPANTS Parents of healthy 6- to 48-month-old children (56 Japanese parents and 61 white US parents). All children had ...

Recent research has demonstrated a strong relationship between information-bearing acoustic changes in the speech signal and speech intelligibility. The availability of information-bearing acoustic changes reliably predicts intelligibility of full-spectrum [Stilp and Kluender (2010). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107(27), 12387-12392] and noise-vocoded sentences amid noise interruption [Stilp e...

Animals that use vocal signals to communicate often compensate for interference and masking from background noise by raising the amplitude of their vocalisations. This response has been termed the Lombard effect. However, despite more than a century of research, little is known how quickly animals can adjust the amplitude of their vocalisations after the onset of noise. The ability to respond q...

Emerging from the suggestion that initial teacher education in Ireland shift to a version of clinical school model, I ask how can we think about in-school experience student teachers terms those capabilities which promote subjectivity? In this paper share philosophical perspective on educational value during education. suggest university’s presence ought be carefully considered. A closer relati...

BACKGROUND Despite the common experience that interrupted sleep has a negative impact on waking function, the features of human sleep-wake architecture that best distinguish sleep continuity versus fragmentation remain elusive. In this regard, there is growing interest in characterizing sleep architecture using models of the temporal dynamics of sleep-wake stage transitions. In humans and other...