How does a listener find and follow the speech of a talker? Many classic and contemporary accounts of speech perception start with a coherent sensory sample of speech already established, as if the perceptual world consisted solely of speech, and as if no more than a single talker ever spoke at once. Long-established and recent characterizations alike have cast the fundamental problem of speech...

Both auditory and visual information plays an important role for audiovisual speech perception during face-to-face communication. Several behavioral studies have shown that native English speakers and native Japanese speakers behaved differently in audiovisual speech perception. We hypothesized that there would be differences in neural processing between native English speakers and native Japan...

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...

Speech researchers have long been interested in how auditory and visual speech signals are integrated, and the recent work has revived interest in the role of speech production with respect to this process. Here, we discuss these issues from a developmental perspective. Because speech perception abilities typically outstrip speech production abilities in infancy and childhood, it is unclear how...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study investigated the effect of ageing on speech perception in quiet and in noise, with noise directed from front, right and left. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Sixty Malay native adults with normal or near normal hearing comprising of 20 young adults (21 to 39 years old), 20 middle aged (40 to 59 years old) and 20 older adults (60 to 74 years old) participated in this ...

The aim of the study was to assess the effect of short-term musical training on speech perception in noise. In the present study speech perception in noise was measured pre- and post- short-term musical training. The musical training involved auditory perceptual training for raga identification of two Carnatic ragas. The training was given for eight sessions. A total of 18 normal hearing adults...

INTRODUCTION The objective of the evaluation of auditory perception of cochlear implant users is to determine how the acoustic signal is processed, leading to the recognition and understanding of sound. OBJECTIVE To investigate the differences in the process of auditory speech perception in individuals with postlingual hearing loss wearing a cochlear implant, using two different speech coding...

Listening taking over half of the learners’ time and effort (Nunan, 1998), forms a basis for acquiring much of a language. There are factors affecting listening comprehension and its perception, such as the speech rate, phonological properties of the text, the quality of the recording, the learners’ anxiety, and listening comprehension strategies (Goh, 2000; Hamouda, 2013). At the Iran Language...