Temporal Processing in Monolingual and Bilingual Normal Hearing Adults

Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual adults

Brain network activity in monolingual and bilingual older adults.

Bilingual older adults typically have better performance on tasks of executive control (EC) than do their monolingual peers, but differences in brain activity due to language experience are not well understood. Based on studies showing a relation between the dynamic range of brain network activity and performance on EC tasks, we hypothesized that life-long bilingual older adults would show incr...

The discrimination of tonal contrasts by monolingual and bilingual adults

In previous TAL [1], we have demonstrated non-tone-learning monolingual and bilingual infants' tone perception in the first year of life. This talk presents a follow-up study on the tone discrimination patterns in the adulthood, specifically in Chinese (tone-language), Dutch (non-tone-language), and Dutch simultaneous bilingual adults (non-tone-languages). Interestingly, adults from all languag...

Lateralized speech perception in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners and its relationship to temporal processing

Proceedings of ISAAR 2015: Individual Hearing Loss – Characterization, Modelling, Compensation Strategies. 5th symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research. August 2015, Nyborg, Denmark. Edited by S. Santurette, T. Dau, J. C. Dalsgaard, L. Tranebjærg, and T. Andersen. ISBN: 978-87-990013-5-4. The Danavox Jubilee Foundation, 2015. Lateralized speech perception in normal-hearing and hearing-im...

Temporal-spatial processing of a single speech reflection in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Reflections and reverberation considerably affect speech recognition in rooms. Early reflections of the speech signal have mostly been found to enhance speech intelligibility [1, 2, 3, 4], while late reflections can have detrimental effects [4, 5]. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying speech perception in noisy and reverberant conditions can be important for various practical inv...