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Rouhbakhsh, Nematollah; Mahdi, John; Hwo, Jacob; Nobel, Baran; Mousave, Fati – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Speech recognition in complex listening environments is enhanced by the extent of spatial separation between the speech source and background competing sources, an effect known as spatial release from masking (SRM). The aim of this study was to investigate whether the phase-locked neural activity in the central auditory pathways,…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Auditory Discrimination, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Hearing (Physiology)
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Strijkers, Kristof – Language Learning, 2016
I will propose a tentative framework of how words in two languages could be organized in the cerebral cortex based on neural assembly theory, according to which neurons that fire synchronously are bound into large-scale distributed functional units (assemblies), which represent a mental event as a whole ("gestalt"). For language this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Guidelines, Language Processing
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Gunter, Helen L.; Ghaziuddin, Mohammad; Ellis, Hadyn D. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2002
Eight participants with Asperger syndrome (AS) (ages 10-41) were assessed in the following areas: the pragmatics of language and communication; verbal and visual memory; visual-spatial abilities; and bimanual motor skills. Results confirmed the close similarity in the neuropsychologic profiles of non-verbal learning disabilities syndrome and AS.…
Descriptors: Adults, Asperger Syndrome, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Children