Researchers have proposed building auditory interfaces that make use of the “cocktail party effect”—the human’s ability to selectively attend to a single talker or stream of audio among a cacophony of others—to reduce the amount of time required to listen [Arons 1992, Cohen 1992, Mullins 1993]. The premise is that by presenting multiple streams of audio simultaneously, the user will be able to ...

Other than well-known motor activities in the precentral gyrus, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have found that the ventral part of the precentral gyrus is activated in response to linguistic auditory stimuli. It has been proposed that the premotor cortex in the precentral gyrus is responsible for the comprehension of speech, but the precise function of this area is still d...

BACKGROUND Poor comprehenders have difficulty comprehending connected text, despite having age-appropriate levels of reading accuracy and fluency. We used a longitudinal design to examine earlier reading and language skills in children identified as poor comprehenders in mid-childhood. METHOD Two hundred and forty-two children began the study at age 5. Further assessments of language and read...

The ability to take a different perspective is central to a tremendous variety of higher level cognitive skills. To communicate effectively, we must adopt the perspective of another person both while speaking and listening. To ensure the successful retrieval of critical information in the future, we must adopt the perspective of our own future self and construct cues that will survive the passa...

UNLABELLED This study teased apart the effects of comprehensibility and complexity on older adults' comprehension of warning symbols by manipulating the relevance of additional information in further refining the meaning of the symbol. Symbols were systematically altered such that increased visual complexity (in the form of contextual cues) resulted in increased comprehensibility. One hundred o...

In the Simple View of Reading proposed by Hoover and Gough (1990), reading comprehension is conceived as the product of word decoding and listening comprehension. It is claimed that listening comprehension or the linguistic processes involved in the comprehension of oral language strongly constrain the process of reading comprehension. In several studies, evidence for this theoretical framework...

The purpose of this study was to describe the types student errors in solving problems based on Newman Error Analysis (NEA) terms learning styles, namely visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. This type research uses qualitative-descriptive research. technique used collect data fill out a style questionnaire, problem tests, interviews, documentation then triangulated obtain valid data. results show...

Little is explored regarding the modality-specific differences in recall abilities of preschool children. Understanding at an early age might give insight into age-linked trends, which can lay a foundation for later development. The current study used cross-sectional design to investigate children using story and stimulus. A total 20 typically developing between ages 3.6 5.5 years were presente...

Wernicke's aphasia occurs after a stroke to classical language comprehension regions in the left temporoparietal cortex. Consequently, auditory-verbal comprehension is significantly impaired in Wernicke's aphasia but the capacity to comprehend visually presented materials (written words and pictures) is partially spared. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the n...

Everyday conversation is both an auditory and a visual phenomenon. While visual speech information enhances comprehension for the listener, evidence suggests that the ability to benefit from this information improves with development. A number of brain regions have been implicated in audiovisual speech comprehension, but the extent to which the neurobiological substrate in the child compares to...