background and aims. the majority of complete denture wearers are old. clinical experience suggests that complete denture wearers have various disorders in their gustatory and olfactory senses due to disturbance of airways between the oral and nasal cavities caused by upper complete denture. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of upper complete denture on gustatory and olfactor...

PURPOSE Two-year-olds produce third person singular -s more accurately on verbs in sentence-final position as compared with verbs in sentence-medial position. This study was designed to determine whether these sentence-position effects can be explained by perceptual factors. METHOD For this purpose, the authors compared 22- and 27-month-olds' perception and elicited production of third person...

We revisit the analysis by synthesis (A S) approach to speech recognition. In the late 1950s and 1960s, Stevens and Halle proposed a model of spoken word recognition in which candidate word representations were synthesised from brief cues in the auditory signal and analysed against the input signal in tightly linked bottom-up/top-down fashion. While this approach failed to garner much support a...

INTRODUCTION The difficulty the elderly experience in understanding speech may be related to several factors including cognitive and perceptual performance. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of cognitive performance, depressive symptoms, and education on speech perception in noise of elderly hearing aids users. METHODS The sample consisted of 25 elderly hearing aids users in bilateral ada...

Exercise and stress are known to influence pain perception. However, little is known about how level of fitness influences pain perception and the experience of pain. In the present study, pain perception before and after exercise to exhaustion was examined in 6 rats systematically bred to have a high aerobic capacity (HCR animals) and 6 rats systematically bred to have a low aerobic capacity (...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to clear up misconceptions that have propagated in the clinical voice literature that inappropriately cite Talbot ’s law (1834) and the theory of persistence of vision as the scientific principles that underlie laryngeal stroboscopy. Method: After initial research into Talbot ’s (1834) original studies, it became clear that his experiments were not design...

Scene Perception is the visual perception of an environment as viewed by an observer at any given time. It includes not only the perception of individual objects, but also such things as their relative locations, and expectations about what other kinds of objects might be encountered. Given that scene perception is so effortless for most observers, it might be thought of as something easy to un...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 1.1. Definitions and scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 1.1.1. Perception . . . ...