PURPOSE Somatosensory information associated with speech articulatory movements affects the perception of speech sounds and vice versa, suggesting an intimate linkage between speech production and perception systems. However, it is unclear which cortical processes are involved in the interaction between speech sounds and orofacial somatosensory inputs. The authors examined whether speech sounds...

This study takes place in the theoretical background of perceptuo-motor linkage in speech perception. A closeshadowing experiment has been carried out on post-lingual cochlear implanted (CI) and normal-hearing (NH) adults in order to evaluate sensory-motor interactions during joint perception and production of speech. To this aim, participants have to categorize audio (A) and audiovisual (AV) s...

Teaching strategies and positive results from training of both perception and production of spoken Swedish with 13 immigrants are reported. The learners participated in six training sessions lasting thirty minutes, twice a week. The training had a positive effect on the L2-speakers’ perception and production of individual Swedish sounds, stress, intonation and rhythm. The positive results were ...

Auditory prostheses, such as cochlear implant and auditory brainstem implant, are used clinically to restore the hearing of patients with sensorineural hearing loss. These devices can considerably improve the auditory information conveyed to the auditory cortex, but proper rehabilitation process is usually necessary to restore auditory communication to an adequate level. Therefore, improvements...

This study aims at presenting a review, from the methodological point of view, procedures and demands related to phonetic approach clinical data. The possibility taking into account interface between speech perception production may be productive when analyzing data collected settings or developing researches in which central questions arose practice. dynamics aspects are considered. series stu...

Debates about motor theories of speech perception have recently been reignited by a burst of reports implicating premotor cortex (PMC) in speech perception. Often, however, these debates conflate perceptual and decision processes. Evidence that PMC activity correlates with task difficulty and subject performance suggests that PMC might be recruited, in certain cases, to facilitate category judg...

A language-trained chimpanzee is able to interpret synthetic 'auditory caricatures' as speech. Important components of human speech perception thus rely upon general auditory mechanisms that predated the evolution of spoken language.

This article reviews a variety of experimental findings, most of them obtained in the last few years, that show that the perception of phonetic distinctions relies on a multiplicity of acoustic cues and is sensi tive to the surrounding context in very specific ways. Nearly all of these effects have correspondences in speech production, and they are readily explained by the assumption that liste...

Previous research on the perception of foreign accent has largely focused on speaker-dependent factors such as Age of Learning and Length of Residence which are specific to an individual speaker. Factors that are independent of particular speakers and their language learning history have also been shown to affect perception of second language speech. The present study examined two speaker-indep...

HYPOTHESIS That early word learning and speech perception skills have different sensitive periods and that very early implantation may affect later vocabulary outcomes more than speech perception outcomes. BACKGROUND Several studies have found that deaf children who receive cochlear implants before 3 years of age tend to have better speech perception outcomes than children implanted later. Re...