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Jing Shen; Jingwei Wu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: "Dynamic pitch," which is defined as the variation in fundamental frequency in speech, is one of the acoustic cues that affect speech recognition in noise. Built on the evidence that a symmetrical manipulation of dynamic pitch led to poorer speech recognition, the present study examined the effect of an asymmetrical manipulation…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Cues
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Chieh Kao; Yang Zhang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate infants' neural responses to changes in emotional prosody in spoken words. The focus was on understanding developmental changes and potential sex differences, aspects that were not consistently observed in previous behavioral studies. Method: A modified multifeature oddball paradigm was used with emotional…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Infants, Emotional Response
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Flaherty, Mary M.; Buss, Emily; Libert, Kelsey – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Maturation of the ability to recognize target speech in the presence of a two-talker speech masker extends into early adolescence. This study evaluated whether children benefit from differences in fundamental frequency (f[subscript o]) contour depth between the target and masker speech, a cue that has been shown to improve recognition in…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
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Yi Weng; Yicheng Rong; Gang Peng – Child Development, 2024
The developmental trajectory of audiovisual speech perception in Mandarin-speaking children remains understudied. This cross-sectional study in Mandarin-speaking 3- to 4-year-old, 5- to 6-year-old, 7- to 8-year-old children, and adults from Xiamen, China (n = 87, 44 males) investigated this issue using the McGurk paradigm with three levels of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mandarin Chinese, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception
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Tessa Bent; Melissa Baese-Berk; Brian Puckett; Erica Ryherd; Sydney Perry; Natalie A. Manley – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Word identification accuracy is modulated by many factors including linguistic characteristics of words (frequent vs. infrequent), listening environment (noisy vs. quiet), and listener-related differences (older vs. younger). Nearly, all studies investigating these factors use high-familiarity words and noise signals that are either energetic…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Word Recognition, Medicine, Vocabulary
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Lauren Mathews; Erin C. Schafer; Kamakshi V. Gopal; Boji Lam; Sharon Miller – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit auditory processing issues, including poor speech recognition in background noise and dichotic processing (integration of different stimuli presented to the two ears). Auditory training could mitigate these auditory difficulties. However, few auditory training…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training
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Mark A. Eckert; Lois J. Matthews; Kenneth I. Vaden Jr.; Judy R. Dubno – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Speech recognition in noise is challenging for listeners and appears to require support from executive functions to focus attention on rapidly unfolding target speech, track misunderstanding, and sustain attention. The current study was designed to test the hypothesis that lower executive function abilities explain poorer speech…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Intelligibility, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication
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Bochner, Joseph; Samar, Vincent; Prud'hommeaux, Emily; Huenerfauth, Matt – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Phoneme categorization (PC) for voice onset time and second formant transition was studied in adult cochlear implant (CI) users with early-onset deafness and hearing controls. Method: Identification and discrimination tasks were administered to 30 participants implanted before 4 years of age, 21 participants implanted after 7 years of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Assistive Technology, Phonemes, Phonological Awareness
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Moberly, Aaron C.; Varadarajan, Varun V.; Tamati, Terrin N. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: When listening to speech under adverse conditions, older adults, even with "age-normal" hearing, face challenges that may lead to poorer speech recognition than their younger peers. Older listeners generally demonstrate poorer suprathreshold auditory processing along with aging-related declines in neurocognitive functioning that…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Sentences, Word Recognition
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Fogerty, Daniel; Madorskiy, Rachel; Vickery, Blythe; Shafiro, Valeriy – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Studies of speech and text interruption indicate that the interruption rate influences the perceptual information available, from whole words at slow rates to subphonemic cues at faster interruptions rates. In young adults, the benefit obtained from text supplementation of speech may depend on the type of perceptual information available…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Auditory Perception, Speech Skills, Speech Communication
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Buss, Emily; Miller, Margaret K.; Leibold, Lori J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Some speech recognition data suggest that children rely less on voice pitch and harmonicity to support auditory scene analysis than adults. Two experiments evaluated development of speech-in-speech recognition using voiced speech and whispered speech, which lacks the harmonic structure of voiced speech. Method: Listeners were 5- to…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Speech Communication, Word Recognition, Acoustics
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Shen, Jing – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Dynamic pitch, which is defined as the variation in fundamental frequency, is an acoustic cue that aids speech perception in noise. This study examined the effects of strengthened and weakened dynamic pitch cues on older listeners' speech perception in noise, as well as how these effects were modulated by individual factors including…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Speech Communication, Acoustics, Auditory Perception
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Wang, Li; Beaman, C. Philip; Jiang, Cunmei; Liu, Fang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Prosody or "melody in speech" in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often perceived as atypical. This study examined perception and production of statements and questions in 84 children, adolescents and adults with and without ASD, as well as participants' pitch direction discrimination thresholds. The results suggested that the abilities…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Suprasegmentals, Intonation
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Kessler, David M.; Wolfe, Jace; Blanchard, Michelle; Gifford, René H. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between speech recognition benefit derived from the addition of a hearing aid (HA) to the nonimplanted ear (i.e., bimodal benefit) and spectral modulation detection (SMD) performance in the nonimplanted ear in a large clinical sample. An additional purpose was to investigate…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Auditory Perception
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Brown, Violet A.; Van Engen, Kristin J.; Peelle, Jonathan E. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Identifying speech requires that listeners make rapid use of fine-grained acoustic cues--a process that is facilitated by being able to see the talker's face. Face masks present a challenge to this process because they can both alter acoustic information and conceal the talker's mouth. Here, we investigated the degree to which different types of…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Speech Communication, Comprehension
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