We follow up on research demonstrating that aero-tactile information can enhance or interfere with accurate auditory perception among uninformed and untrained perceivers [1, 2, 3]. We computationally extract aperiodic information from auditory recordings of speech, which represents turbulent air-flow produced from the lips [4, 5]. This extracted signal is used to drive a piezoelectric air-pump ...

Sound variations are persistent in the phonological system of all languages. Such variations, at the individual level, are exhibited by different patterns of perception and production. Recent studies have suggested individual differences in cognitive abilities as important sources of variability in speech processing. Yet, how different aspects of speech processing are associated with different ...

Speech intelligibility is known to be relatively unaffected by certain deformations of the acoustic spectrum. These include translations, stretching or contracting dilations, and shearing of the spectrum (represented along the logarithmic frequency axis). It is argued here that such robustness reflects a synergy between vocal production and auditory perception. Thus, on the one hand, it is show...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to determine the auditory performance of congenitally deaf children and the effect of cochlear implantation (ci) on speech intelligibility. methods: aprospective study was undertaken on 47 children in a pediatric tertiary referral center for ci. all children were deaf prelingually and were younger than 8 years of age. they were followed up until 5 ...

In the present study, cortical responses of two sustained Italian vowels, /a/ and /i/, were analyzed in perception and production tasks by using the event-related potential (ERP) technique. First, we showed that the earlier auditory waveform complex, N1/P2, was elicited in both experimental tasks by acoustically presented vowels. More interestingly, the cortical activity of auditory cortex seem...

Face-to-face communication is a temporally extended, multisensory process. In human speech, the auditory component is, for the most part, the result of vocal fold movements that release sound energy. This sound energy travels up through the oral and nasal cavities, where it is radiated out of the lips and nostrils. Changes in the internal and external shape of these cavities lead to different s...

 Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to determine the auditory performance of congenitally deaf children and the effect of cochlear implantation (CI) on speech intelligibility. Methods: Aprospective study was undertaken on 47 children in a pediatric tertiary referral center for CI. All children were deaf prelingually and were younger than 8 years of age. They were followed up until 5...

Asymmetry in auditory cortical oscillations could play a role in speech perception by fostering hemispheric triage of information across the two hemispheres. Due to this asymmetry, fast speech temporal modulations relevant for phonemic analysis could be best perceived by the left auditory cortex, while slower modulations conveying vocal and paralinguistic information would be better captured by...

INFANT AUDITION 59 Development of the Auditory Apparatus: Setting the Stage 59 Measuring Auditory Development 60 Frequency Coding 61 Intensity Coding 63 Temporal Coding 67 Spatial Resolution 69 Development of Auditory Scene Analysis 70 Implications for the Development of Speech Perception 71 INFANT SPEECH PERCEPTION AND WORD LEARNING: BEGINNINGS OF LANGUAGE 72 Emergence of the Field: Phonetic P...