background: speech perception ability depends on auditory and extra-auditory elements. the signal-to-noise ratio (snr) is an extra-auditory element that has an effect on the ability to normally follow speech and maintain a conversation. speech in noise perception difficulty is a common complaint of the elderly. in this study, the importance of snr magnitude as an extra-auditory effect on speech...

Listening and understanding speech in noisy environments is a situation that many people encounter in their daily lives. This problem is exacerbated by old age or the presence of a hearing loss. The purpose of the present study was to investigate two components that contribute to successful word recognition in noise. The first component is the advantage of binaural over monaural listening and t...

When listening in noisy conditions, word recognition seems to be much harder in a non-native language than in one’s native language. Native listeners use both word-initial and word-final information for word recognition in clean listening conditions, where word-initial information is the most important. When listening in noise, however, word-final information becomes relatively more important. ...

Word familiarity effects on lexical decision times and recognition scores were investigated for two sets of 100 spoken Japanese words whose familiarity ratings ranged from middle (4.0) to high (7.0) taken from a recently-developed word familiarity database containing about 80,000 Japanese words. The results showed that the higher the word familiarity rating is, the shorter the reaction time is,...