Emotional responses affect interpretation of messages heard and raise barriers to effective listening. Teaching students to listen objectively and recognize emotional triggers will help them develop clearer understanding and result in better learning. (SK)

Looks at two sets of complementary experimental data to consider whether listeners can determine the age of a speaker from hearing a voice sample. The experiments conducted involved speech samples from natural conversations; parallel studies were done in the United States, using native speakers and situations and native speakers as experimental…

Advises school leaders to consolidate people's names in their memory, thus avoiding acute embarrassment. School Executives can use the L-I-S-T-E-N approach: listen carefully, initiate questions about the person's name, say it often, translate the name into pictures, etch key facial features onto their minds, and note salient information on…

This study, with 26 normal hearing subjects, investigated the development of temporal resolution as a function of frequency region, using a modified masking period pattern model. Results indicated that temporal resolution improves with age, with improvement for low frequencies continuing beyond age 10 but high frequency improvement approaching…

Discusses the necessity of clear speech in the theater, especially in this age of media "watching, not listening to." Finds that theater professionals cannot expect an audience to listen if the language is not spoken as if it mattered. (PA)

Sixteen experienced cochlear-implant patients with a range of speech-perception abilities received the SPEAK processing strategy in the Nucleus Spectra-22 cochlear implant. After six months' experience with SPEAK, patients showed significantly improved mean performance on a range of speech recognition measures in quiet and noise. Improvements were…

Counselors need to develop age-sensitive communication skills based on research findings concerning developmental changes due to age. This article presents a listening-responding technique outlining six principles that can be applied in a wide variety of situations. These principles are governed by the intention to preserve self esteem and to…

Ten children (ages 12-16) with specific language impairments (SLI) and controls matched for chronological or language age were tested with measures of complex sound localization involving the precedence effect phenomenon. SLI children exhibited tracking skills similar to language-age matched controls, indicating impairment in their ability to use…

Describes memory task performance of a 50-year-old female with a phonological short-term memory (STM) impairment. The patient showed a deficit of syntactic parsing restricted to the auditory modality, possibility because of an impaired STM and an impaired syntactic parser. Test material and results are appended. (Contains 39 references.) (Author)

Research has identified a number of dimensions along which speakers modify referring expressions. The study discussed here aimed to determine and describe the actual relationship existing between these production characteristics and corresponding measures of listener comprehension. (Author/VWL)

Human listeners can keep track of statistical regularities among temporally adjacent elements in both speech and musical streams. However, for speech streams, when statistical regularities occur among nonadjacent elements, only certain types of patterns are acquired. Here, using musical tone sequences, the authors investigate nonadjacent learning.…

In this article, the author shares an anecdote demonstrating one-trial learning which is commonplace in human behavior. The demonstration suggests that under some conditions, when people hear someone speak, their behavior changes, even in the absence of an apparent contingency of reinforcement, but only if they have in their repertoire verbal…

The present experiments investigate how young language learners begin to acquire form-based categories and the relationships between them. We investigated this question by exposing 12-month-olds to auditory structure of the form aX and bY (infants had to learn that a-elements grouped with Xs and not Ys). Infants were then tested on strings from…

Honoring the net is a concept presented by Purkey in his discussion of the four-corner press. In a counseling setting this concept relates to the perceptions of the counselor and the client as they encounter one another in the counseling relationship, as well as the relationship itself. This manuscript attempts to examine the dynamic of the net…

Listening to the dying poses special challenges. This paper proposes a contingency framework for describing and assessing various circumstances when listening to the dying. It identifies current approaches to listening, applies the contingency framework toward effectively listening to the dying, and proposes a new type of listening called…