We report an individual with a massive left-hemisphere lesion, who showed reverse patterns of dissociations between word and number processing in two modalities (auditory comprehension and written production). His performance in auditory comprehension was perfect for words, but severely impaired for numbers. In written production, he performed significantly better at writing numbers (both Arabi...

The ability to monitor multiple sources of concurrent auditory information is an integral component of Navy watchstanding operations. However, this leads to attentionally demanding environments. The present study tested the utility of a potential solution to listening to multiple speech communications in an auditory display environment: presenting speech serially at synthetically accelerated ra...

Sixty-eight college students enrolled in a French course listened to a multimedia-based French passage in one of four groups to which they were randomly assigned: the listening text (a) alone, with no annotations; (b) in pairs, with no annotations; (c) alone, with written and pictorial annotations; and (d) in pairs, with written and pictorial annotations. The students identified or recalled voc...

While it is hypothesized that providing instruction based on individuals’ preferred learning styles improves learning (i.e., reading for visual learners and listening for auditory learners, also referred to as the meshing hypothesis), after a critical review of the literature Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, and Bjork (2008) concluded that this hypothesis lacks empirical evidence and subsequently des...

According to Gough and Tunmer's Simple View of Reading, Reading Comprehension = Decoding (D) x Listening Comprehension (C). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the model with a sample of First Nations children, known to have average decoding and listening comprehension but poor reading comprehension. In addition, the authors examined the contribution of naming speed and phonological aware...

Listening and reading comprehension are complex processes that are difficult to assess. Many standardized comprehension tests place high demands on memory, assess only sentence length material, and may not reflect how students comprehend classroom material. The present study employed a sentence verification task ( S m ) to test 60 grade 7 and 8 students' comprehension of expository passages. Pa...

The aim of study #1 was to weigh the familiarity and imageability of children in the fifth to eighth grade age bracket against the corresponding values of adults. The aim of study #2 was to examine the effects of lexical properties on printed kanji word comprehension, reading aloud, and word auditory comprehension in fourth grade children. The lexical properties used in study #2 were familiarit...

Speech comprehension depends on the integrity of both the spectral content and temporal envelope of the speech signal. Although neural processing underlying spectral analysis has been intensively studied, less is known about the processing of temporal information. Most of speech information conveyed by the temporal envelope is confined to frequencies below 16 Hz, frequencies that roughly match ...

BACKGROUND The literature suggests that a complex relationship exists between the three main skills involved in reading comprehension (decoding, listening comprehension and vocabulary) and that this relationship depends on at least three other factors orthographic transparency, children's grade level and socioeconomic status (SES). This study investigated the relative contribution of the predic...

This study investigated young children's ability to use narrative contexts to infer the meanings of novel vocabulary items. Two groups of 15 seven- to eight-year olds participated: children with normally developing reading comprehension skill and children with weak reading comprehension skill. The children read short stories containing a novel word and were required to produce a meaning for the...