Understanding speech in noise is one of the most complex activities encountered in everyday life, relying on peripheral hearing, central auditory processing, and cognition. These abilities decline with age, and so older adults are often frustrated by a reduced ability to communicate effectively in noisy environments. Many studies have examined these factors independently; in the last decade, ho...

Abstract Imaging studies of language processing in clinical populations can be complicated to interpret for several reasons, one being the difficulty matching effortfulness across individuals or tasks. To better understand how effortful linguistic is reflected functional activity, we investigated neural correlates task and non-linguistic contexts auditory modality, then compared our findings a ...

background and aim: electrical discharges in temporal lobe epilepsy can cause disorders in auditory pathways. staggered spondaic word test ( ssw) is one of the most common behavioral tests to evaluate the central auditory nervous system. this study aimed to evaluate and compare auditory processing problems in temporal lobe epileptic patients and normal subjects with persian ssw test. methods: t...

It has been argued that dyslexics suffer from temporal sensory processing deficits which affect their ability to discriminate speech in quiet environments. The impact of auditory deficits on non-language aspects of perception, however, is poorly understood. In almost every natural-listening environment, one must constantly construct scenes of the auditory world by grouping and analyzing sounds ...

One goal common to human sentence processing theories is to develop a crosslinguistically applicable account of human parsing processes. There is much empirical evidence consistent with such theories, based on experiments involving diverse languages such as English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, and German, among others. However, processing facts for many other languages are yet to be determined, an...

The human auditory cortex is the gateway to the most powerful and complex communication systems and yet relatively little is known about its functional organization as compared to the visual system. Several lines of evidence, predominantly from recent studies, indicate that sound recognition and sound localization are processed in two at least partially independent networks. Evidence from human...