Background Previous studies have shown that interaural-time-difference (ITD) training can improve localization ability. Surprisingly little is, however, known about localization training vis-à-vis speech perception in noise based on interaural time difference in the envelope (ITD ENV). We sought to investigate the reliability of an ITD ENV-based training program in speech-in-noise perception am...

objectives: auditory perception or hearing ability is critical for children in acquisition of language and speech hence hearing loss has different effects on individuals’ linguistic perception, and also on their functions. it seems that deaf people suffer from language and speech impairments such as in perception of complex linguistic constructions. this research was aimed to study the percepti...

It is well recognised that multi-channel cochlear implants are highly effective in gaining or regaining auditory perceptual skills of severe to profound hearing-impaired people. Research shows that adults rapidly improve in speech understanding after cochlear implantation. This study reports on speech understanding from two Spanish Clinics. 32 post-lingually deafened adults were fitted with eit...

the purpose of the present study is the comparison of the pattern of language perception in down syndrome (ds) children and typical children. to achieve the objective, nine subjects with ds (whose mental ages were 72-78 months and were drawn from five center of special education in the city of mashhad) and five typical children with the same mental ages were selected through random sampling; an...

This study focused on long-term speech perception performances of 34 prelingually deafened children who received multichannel cochlear implants manufactured by Cochlear Corporation. The children were grouped by the age at which they received cochlear implants and were characterized by the amount of time they used their device per day. A variety of speech perception tests were administered to th...

human brain has been constructed to be different between male and female from structural and functional points of view. this research aims at the study of the difference between the two genders in perception of affective (emotional) prosody of speech. the present study is cross – sectional, whose subjects include 50 iranians in two gender categories of male and female. the responses of each gro...

Even though pediatric hearing aid (HA) users listen most often to female talkers, clinicallyused speech tests primarily consist of adult male talkers' speech. Potential effects of age and/or gender of the talker on speech perception of pediatric HA users were examined using two speech tests, hVdvowel identification and CNC word recognition, and using speech materials spoken by four talker types...

It is known that speech under physical task stress degrades speech system performance. Therefore, an analysis of speech under physical task stress is performed across several parameters to identify acoustic correlates. Formal listener tests are also performed to determine the relationship between acoustic correlates and perception. To verify the statistical significance of all results, student-...

Perceptual training with spectrally degraded environmental sounds results in improved environmental sound identification, with benefits shown to extend to untrained speech perception as well. The present study extended those findings to examine longer-term training effects as well as effects of mere repeated exposure to sounds over time. Participants received two pretests (1 week apart) prior t...