The simple view of reading highlights the importance of two primary components which account for individual differences in reading comprehension across development: word recognition (i.e., decoding) and listening comprehension. While assessments and interventions for decoding have been the focus of pedagogy in the past several decades, the importance of listening comprehension has received less...

Reading comprehension has been widely studied. One of the most representative reading comprehension tasks is Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), on which machine is already comparable with human. On the other hand, accessing large collections of multimedia or spoken content is much more difficult and time-consuming than plain text content for humans. It’s therefore highly attractive to...

Whether an aphasic patient understands what is said appears to be influenced by many factors in addition to the message itself, among them: how the material is presented, what the situational context is, the nature of the response required, the individual's cognitive functioning, his/her motivation, and the location and extent of the cerebral lesion_ Of course, the individual engaged in the com...

A study was conducted to determine which factors on the Pupil Rating Scale (Revised) developed by H. Myklebust (1965) were identified by classroom teachers as being deficient in referring students for central auditory testing. The Pupil Rating Scale is a behavioral checklist for classroom teachers to use to rate students in five broad categories of verbal and nonverbal abilities. Pupil Rating S...

It has become nearly axiomatic (and even likely true) to hold that inference generation during language comprehension is a function of two things: (1) the nature of the inference under consideration and (2) the conditions under which the inference is examined. Thus, in the first case, we find the literature rife with observations that while there is little evidence of "automatic" generation of ...

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant information. The present study aimed to identify how processing linguistic ambiguity during auditory comprehension may be associated with inhibitory control. Monolinguals and bilinguals listened to words in their native language (English) and identified them among four pictures while their eye-movements were tr...

The human auditory system is known to be able to easily analyze and decompose complex acoustic scenes into its constituent acoustic sources. This requires the integration of a multitude of acoustic cues, a phenomenon that is often referred to as cocktail-party processing. Auditory Scene Analysis, especially the segregation and comprehension of concurrent speakers, is one of the key features in ...

Concepts in cognitive neuroscience fundamental to intervention are summarized. The functional plasticity of the maturing central nervous system offers opportunity to improve auditory processing skills. A comprehensive approach to improve listening comprehension and learning in children and youth with central auditory processing disorders is outlined. The management approach emphasizes developme...

In the present study, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to compare auditory sentence comprehension in 16 children with developmental dyslexia (age 9-12 years) and unimpaired controls matched on age, sex, and nonverbal intelligence. Passive sentences were presented, which were either correct or contained a syntactic violation (phrase structure) or a semantic violation (selectional ...

Information sonification is an emerging field of pervasive computing and is applicable in many wearable artificial sensory systems. This paper presents some strategies that can be employed in auditory interface design where using sound as representation gives insight into the improvement of comprehension and recognition of information sonification in an auditory graphing system. The design stra...