Auditory word recognition across the lifespan

Psychology and Aging Visual Word Recognition Across the Adult Lifespan

Stability and plasticity of auditory brainstem function across the lifespan.

The human auditory brainstem is thought to undergo rapid developmental changes early in life until age ∼2 followed by prolonged stability until aging-related changes emerge. However, earlier work on brainstem development was limited by sparse sampling across the lifespan and/or averaging across children and adults. Using a larger dataset than past investigations, we aimed to trace more subtle v...

Word learning and lexical development across the lifespan.

Word learning is one of the core components of language acquisition. In this article, we provide an overview of the theme issue on word learning, describing some of the ways in which research in the area has progressed and diverged. In recent years, word learning has become central in a wider range of research areas, and is important to research on adult, as well as child and infant language. W...

Grammatical information effects in auditory word recognition.

Three lexical decision experiments were concerned with the separability of syntactic and semantic processing in spoken word perception. An additional experiment examined the problem of measuring reaction times to a spoken stimulus. Words in the Serbo-Croatian language were used; each stimulus consisted of a noun stem (which was either a meaningful root or a pseudoword stem) plus an inflectional...

Auditory models in isolated word recognition

A straightforward isolated word recognition system has been used to test different auditory models in acoustic front end processing. The models include BARK, PHON, and SONE. The PHONTEMP model is based on PHON but also includes temporal forward masking. We also introduce a model, DOMIN, whieh is intended to measure the dominating frequency at each point along the 'basilar membrane.' A11 the abo...