UNLABELLED Today, we are questioning how top-down skills may interfere with performance on auditory processing tests. OBJECTIVE To investigate the existence of a possible association between memory, attention and language skills in auditory processing tests in "normal" development children. METHOD Twenty children (ages 7 to 9 years), without complaints related to verbal and/or written langu...

While strong activation of auditory cortex is generally found for exogenous orienting of attention, endogenous, intra-modal shifting of auditory attention has not yet been demonstrated to evoke transient activation of the auditory cortex. Here, we used fMRI to test if endogenous shifting of attention is also associated with transient activation of the auditory cortex. In contrast to previous st...

A recently proposed auditory model is examined using simulated binaural masking level difference (BMLD) and dichotic pitch (Huggins and binaural edge pitch) stimuli. The model is based on calculating the instantaneous interaural level difference, i.e. the difference between the left and right ear neural signals. The model output produces pronounced maximum at the signal frequency with BMLD stim...

Normal and dyslexic right-handed children were assessed with three dichotic listening tests, the Dichotic Digits test, the Competing Words subtest of the SCAN, and the Dichotic Consonant-Vowel test. Performance was measured as both number and percentage of correct responses in the right and left ears. Laterality was defined as a simple difference in percentage between the two ears. Differences ...

Auditory attention is critical for selective listening to speech from a single talker in a multi-talker environment (e.g., Cherry, 1953). Listening in such situations is notoriously more difficult and more poorly encoded to long-term memory in older than in young adults (Tun, O’Kane, & Wingfield, 2002). Recent work by Payne, Rogers, Wingfield, and Sekuler (2016) in young adults demonstrated a n...

The FAS Verbal Fluency Test is widely used in neuropsychological clinical services and research. This study investigated the contributions of different executive functions, age and gender to FAS test performance in a sample of children and teenagers divided into two groups: G1 comprised 263 children aged 6-10 years, and G2 comprised 150 teenagers aged 10-14 years. All participants were assessed...

A dichotic monitoring test for the lateralisation of speech dominance was compared with testing for dysphasia after unilateral electroconvulsive therapy to each side of the head in 31 patients, and the intracarotid amylobarbitone test in four epileptic patients. Twenty-eight patients shown to be left speech dominant also showed right ear advantages in the dichotic test. Four of the five right s...

Introduction: The basolateral amygdala (BLA) and infralimbic area (IL) of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) are two interconnected brain structures that mediate both fear memory expression and extinction. Besides the well-known role of the BLA in the acquisition and expression of fear memory, projections from IL to BLA inhibit fear expression and have a critical role in fear extinction. Howev...

Abstract — The characteristics of a specific event-related potential elicited by sound motion onset (motion-onset response, MOR) were estimated. Moving stimuli with delayed presented to right-handed subjects in dichotic conditions. Sound was produced linear changes interaural time differences. amplitude and latency cN1 cP2 components evoked potentials measured wide range velocities. increased l...

Hearing impaired individuals often have difficulty hearing in noise because of reduced spectral resolution. Previous research suggests that dichotic processing, where information from neighboring frequency regions is sent to opposite ears, may benefit those individuals. However, dichotic processing can degrade binaural cues, reducing spatial release from masking and localization accuracy. In th...