objectives: this paper studies the effect of persian cued speech on the perception of persian language phonemes and monosyllabic words with and without sound in hearing impaired children. cued speech is a sound based mode of communication for hearing impaired people that is comprised of a limited series of hand complements and the normal pattern of speech. and it is shown that it effectively ca...

Recent studies of human speech motor learning suggest that learning is accompanied by changes in auditory perception. But what drives the perceptual change? Is it a consequence of changes in the motor system? Or is it a result of sensory inflow during learning? Here, subjects participated in a speech motor-learning task involving adaptation to altered auditory feedback and they were subsequentl...

While the behavioral side of categorical perception in speech is already well investigated, little is known concerning its underlying neural mechanisms. In this study, a computer-implemented neurophonetic model of speech production and perception is used in order to elucidate the functional neural mechanisms responsible for categorical perception. 20 instances of the model (“virtual listeners/s...

BACKGROUND Cochlear implants (CI) for the rehabilitation of patients with profound or total bilateral sensorineural hypoacusis represent the initial use of electrical fields to provide audibility in cases where the use of sound amplifiers does not provide satisfactory results. AIMS To compare speech perception performance after cochlear implantation in children with connexin 26-associated dea...

The perception of speech is notably malleable in adults, yet alterations in perception seem to have little impact on speech production. However, we hypothesized that speech perceptual training might immediately influence speech motor learning. To test this, we paired a speech perceptual-training task with a speech motor-learning task. Subjects performed a series of perceptual tests designed to ...

Listening conditions affect bilinguals’ speech perception, but relatively little is known about the effect of the combination of several degrading listening conditions. We studied the combined effect of speech rate and background noise on bilinguals’ speech perception in their L1 and L2. Speech perception of twenty Israeli university students, native speakers of Arabic (L1), with Hebrew as L2, ...

Children who have hearing loss or other auditory disorders are at risk for educational difficulties, especially when the detrimental effects of an impaired auditory system are combined with poor classroom acoustics. Classroom observations, teacher questionnaires, and speech perception measures in noise may be used to identify children who are at-risk and to evaluate the effects of classroom noi...

OBJECTIVES To analyse the speech perception performance of 53 cochlear implant recipients with otosclerosis and to evaluate which factors influenced patient performance in this group. The factors included disease-related data such as demographics, pre-operative audiological characteristics, the results of CT scanning and device-related factors. METHODS Data were reviewed on 53 patients with o...