For both adults and children, acoustic context plays an important role in speech perception. For adults, both speech and nonspeech acoustic contexts influence perception of subsequent speech items, consistent with the argument that effects of context are due to domain-general auditory processes. However, prior research examining the effects of context on children's speech perception have focuse...

This paper reviews the basic aspects of auditory processing that play a role in the perception of speech. The frequency selectivity of the auditory system, as measured using masking experiments, is described and used to derive the internal representation of the spectrum (the excitation pattern) of speech sounds. The perception of timbre and distinctions in quality between vowels are related to ...

This paper investigates the difference between basic psycho-acoustic auditory perception and language-specific perception of speech sounds. This was examined in two experiments with American English and Russian listeners. Results suggest that listeners' language does not influence auditory perception, but does affect the rated perceptual similarity of speech sounds.

For much of the past 50 years, the main theoretical debate in the scientific study of speech perception has focused on whether the processing of speech sounds relies on neural mechanisms that are specific to speech and language or whether general perceptual/cognitive processes can account for all of the relevant phenomena. Starting with the first presentations of the Motor Theory of Speech Perc...

Parsing of information from the world into objects and events occurs in both the visual and auditory modalities. It has been suggested that visual and auditory scene perception involve similar principles of perceptual organization. This study investigated cross-modal scene perception by determining whether an auditory stimulus could facilitate visual object segregation. Specifically, we examine...

OBJECTIVE Patients with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) exhibit altered neural synchrony in response to auditory stimuli. Cochlear implantation (CI) is thought to improve neural synchrony in response to auditory stimuli and improve speech perception relative to conventional hearing amplification (HA). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING Tertiary otologic practice. SUBJ...

Speech perception involves multiple input modalities. Research has indicated that perceivers establish cross-modal associations between auditory and visuospatial events to aid perception. Such intermodal relations can be particularly beneficial for speech development and learning, where infants and non-native perceivers need additional resources to acquire and process new sounds. This study exa...

The current study examined older and younger adults’ perception of auditory and auditory-visual Lombard speech. A staircase procedure was used to estimate the SNR required for participants to achieve 50% correct auditory identification of Quiet and Lombard speech (CVC and VCV stimuli). Stimuli were then presented in auditory only (AO), visual only (VO) and auditory visual (AV) conditions in a s...

Visible speech enhances the intelligibility of auditory speech when listening conditions are poor [1], and can modify the perception of otherwise perfectly audible utterances [2]. This audiovisual perception is our most natural form of communication and one of our most common multisensory phenomena. However, where and in what form the visual and auditory representations interact is still not co...