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.

INFANT AUDITION 59 Development of the Auditory Apparatus: Setting the Stage 59 Measuring Auditory Development 60 Frequency Coding 61 Intensity Coding 63 Temporal Coding 67 Spatial Resolution 69 Development of Auditory Scene Analysis 70 Implications for the Development of Speech Perception 71 INFANT SPEECH PERCEPTION AND WORD LEARNING: BEGINNINGS OF LANGUAGE 72 Emergence of the Field: Phonetic P...

Speech perception in noise is still difficult for cochlear implant (CI) users even with many years of CI use. This study aimed to investigate neurophysiological and behavioral foundations for CI-dependent speech perception in noise. Seventeen post-lingual CI users and twelve age-matched normal hearing adults participated in two experiments. In Experiment 1, CI users' auditory-only word percepti...

Music is a curious example of a temporally patterned acoustic stimulus, and a compelling pan-cultural phenomenon. This review strives to bring some insights from decades of music psychology and sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) literature into the mainstream auditory domain, arguing that musical rhythm perception is shaped in important ways by temporal processing mechanisms in the brain. The f...

The auditory nervous system is highly nonlinear. Some nonlinear responses arise through active processes in the cochlea, while others may arise in neural populations of the cochlear nucleus, inferior colliculus and higher auditory areas. In humans, auditory brainstem recordings reveal nonlinear population responses to combinations of pure tones, and to musical intervals composed of complex tone...

background and aim: tinnitus is perception of sound in absence of external source. reaction time is the time between sensory stimuli and a behavior. alternation of auditory reaction time has been shown in the literature in patients with tinnitus. this study has investigated the auditory reaction time in quiet and noise to different frequencies. methods: fifteen subjects with chronic tinnitus pa...

When a single brief visual flash is accompanied by two auditory bleeps, it is frequently perceived incorrectly as two flashes. Here, we used high field functional MRI in humans to examine the neural basis of this multisensory perceptual illusion. We show that activity in retinotopic visual cortex is increased by the presence of concurrent auditory stimulation, irrespective of any illusory perce...

Recent magneto-encephalographic and electro-encephalographic studies provide evidence for cross-modal integration during audio-visual and audio-haptic speech perception, with speech gestures viewed or felt from manual tactile contact with the speaker's face. Given the temporal precedence of the haptic and visual signals on the acoustic signal in these studies, the observed modulation of N1/P2 a...