Speech Perception

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 3-year-old children make relevance inferences in indirect verbal communication. 
  • A Binaural Cochlear Implant Sound Coding Strategy Inspired by the Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Reflex. 
  • A Randomized Control Trial: Supplementing Hearing Aid Use with Listening and Communication Enhancement (LACE) Auditory Training. 
  • A comparison of adaptive psychometric procedures based on the theory of optimal experiments and bayesian techniques: implications for cochlear implant testing. 
  • A comparison of hemispheric asymmetries in speech-related brain potentials of autistic and dysphasic children. 
  • A mutual information analysis of neural coding of speech by low-frequency MEG phase information. 
  • A neurophysiological study into the foundations of tonal harmony. 
  • Acoustic model investigation of a multiple carrier frequency algorithm for encoding fine frequency structure: implications for cochlear implants. 
  • Age-related slowing of memory retrieval: contributions of perceptual speed and cerebral white matter integrity. 
  • An Evaluation of the BKB-SIN, HINT, QuickSIN, and WIN Materials on Listeners With Normal Hearing and Listeners With Hearing Loss. 
  • An attempt to improve bilateral cochlear implants by increasing the distance between electrodes and providing complementary information to the two ears. 
  • Assessing the pitch structure associated with multiple rates and places for cochlear implant users. 
  • AzBio Speech Understanding Performance in Quiet and Noise in High Performing Cochlear Implant Users. 
  • Bilateral cochlear implantation: current concepts, indications, and results. 
  • Bilateral cochlear implantation: current concepts. 
  • Bilateral cochlear implants controlled by a single speech processor. 
  • Bilaterally Combined Electric and Acoustic Hearing in Mandarin-Speaking Listeners: The Population With Poor Residual Hearing. 
  • Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study. 
  • Brain responses in the processing of lexical pitch-accent by Japanese speakers. 
  • Central effects of residual hearing: implications for choice of ear for cochlear implantation. 
  • Children's ability to answer different types of questions. 
  • Clinical and psychosocial risk factors of hearing outcome in older adults with cochlear implants. 
  • Cochlear implant outcome is not influenced by the choice of ear. 
  • Cochlear implantation in older adults. 
  • Cochlear implantation in patients with cochlear malformations. 
  • Cochlear implantation update. 
  • Cochlear implants: a remarkable past and a brilliant future. 
  • Cochlear implants: current designs and future possibilities. 
  • Cochlear implants: some likely next steps. 
  • Comparison of electrode discrimination, pitch ranking, and pitch scaling data in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant subjects. 
  • Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 
  • Control of speech and voice in cochlear implant patients. 
  • Defining the broader phenotype of autism: genetic, brain, and behavioral perspectives. 
  • Design and evaluation of a continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) processing strategy for multichannel cochlear implants. 
  • Design for an inexpensive but effective cochlear implant. 
  • Development of Abbreviated Versions of the Word Auditory Recognition and Recall Measure. 
  • Development of non-native vowel discrimination: Improvement without exposure. 
  • Development of single/geminate obstruent discrimination by Japanese infants: early integration of durational and nondurational cues. 
  • Development of the Listening Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (LSEQ). 
  • Developmental increases in effective connectivity to brain regions involved in phonological processing during tasks with orthographic demands. 
  • Dissociation of event-related potentials indexing arousal and semantic cohesion during emotional word encoding. 
  • Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation. 
  • Done wrong or said wrong? Young children understand the normative directions of fit of different speech acts. 
  • Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex resolves conflict from distracting stimuli by boosting attention toward relevant events. 
  • Early literacy gains in children with cochlear implants. 
  • Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation. 
  • Effects of central nervous system residua on cochlear implant results in children deafened by meningitis. 
  • Electrode discrimination and speech recognition in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant subjects. 
  • Emergence of Japanese infants' prosodic preferences in infant-directed vocabulary. 
  • Even at 4 months, a labial is a good enough coronal, but not vice versa. 
  • Examination of Individual Differences in Outcomes From a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Comparing Formal and Informal Individual Auditory Training Programs. 
  • Expediting the identification of impaired channels in cochlear implants via analysis of speech-based confusion matrices. 
  • From acoustic to linguistic analysis of temporal speech structure: Acousto-linguistic transformation during speech perception using speech quilts. 
  • From babble to words: Infants' early productions match words and objects in their environment. 
  • Genetic mapping of brain plasticity across development in Williams syndrome: ERP markers of face and language processing. 
  • German children's comprehension of word order and case marking in causative sentences. 
  • Getting a decent (but sparse) signal to the brain for users of cochlear implants. 
  • Hearing outcomes after surgical plugging of the superior semicircular canal by a middle cranial fossa approach. 
  • Hearing-in-noise benefits after bilateral simultaneous cochlear implantation continue to improve 4 years after implantation. 
  • Hemisphere-specific properties of the ventriloquism aftereffect. 
  • How much does prosody help word segmentation? A simulation study on infant-directed speech. 
  • I see what you are saying. 
  • Imagery, encoding specificity, and prose recall in 6-year-old children. 
  • Immediate use of prosody and context in predicting a syntactic structure. 
  • Impact of Effortful Word Recognition on Supportive Neural Systems Measured by Alpha and Theta Power. 
  • Impact of cochlear implants on the functional health status of older adults. 
  • Importance of patient and processor variables in determining outcomes with cochlear implants. 
  • Intelligibility in speech maskers with a binaural cochlear implant sound coding strategy inspired by the contralateral medial olivocochlear reflex. 
  • Intersubject variability in cortical activations during a complex language task. 
  • Investigating perceptual features of electrode stimulation via a multidimensional scaling paradigm. 
  • Investigation of the effects of temporal and spatial interactions on speech-recognition skills in cochlear-implant subjects. 
  • Joint attention on actions: acquiring verbs in ostensive and non-ostensive contexts. 
  • Language specificity in cortical tracking of speech rhythm at the mora, syllable, and foot levels. 
  • Language-general biases and language-specific experience contribute to phonological detail in toddlers' word representations. 
  • Learnability of prosodic boundaries: Is infant-directed speech easier? 
  • Learning to listen again: the role of compliance in auditory training for adults with hearing loss. 
  • Linking sight and sound: fMRI evidence of primary auditory cortex activation during visual word recognition. 
  • Mandarin Chinese tone identification in cochlear implants: predictions from acoustic models. 
  • Memory for prose in Korsakoff and schizophrenic populations. 
  • Mothers speak less clearly to infants than to adults: a comprehensive test of the hyperarticulation hypothesis. 
  • Multicenter U.S. bilateral MED-EL cochlear implantation study: speech perception over the first year of use. 
  • Multicenter US Clinical Trial With an Electric-Acoustic Stimulation (EAS) System in Adults: Final Outcomes. 
  • Neuropsychological dysfunctions in unipolar nonpsychotic major depressions. 
  • New processing strategies for multichannel cochlear prostheses. 
  • New processing strategies in cochlear implantation. 
  • Olfactory cuing of autobiographical memory. 
  • On measuring fuzziness: a comment on "A fuzzy set approach to modifiers and vagueness in natural language". 
  • One-year-old infants follow others' voice direction. 
  • Optical brain imaging reveals general auditory and language-specific processing in early infant development. 
  • Partial deafness cochlear implantation (PDCI) and electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS). 
  • Patients utilizing a hearing aid and a cochlear implant: speech perception and localization. 
  • Perception of dynamic acoustic patterns by an individual with unilateral verbal auditory agnosia. 
  • Predicting the unbeaten path through syntactic priming. 
  • Prosodic planning while reading aloud: on-line examination of Japanese sentences. 
  • Quantifying Talker Variability in North-American Infants' Daily Input. 
  • Rehabilitation and Psychosocial Determinants of Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Older Adults. 
  • Relationship between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and cognition in cognitively normal older adults. 
  • Remote programming of cochlear implants: a telecommunications model. 
  • Revision cochlear implant surgery in children: the Johns Hopkins experience. 
  • Robust Resilience of the Frontotemporal Syntax System to Aging. 
  • Sensory-motor transformations for speech occur bilaterally. 
  • Slowing presentation speed increases illusions of knowledge. 
  • Social stimulation and joint attention in young autistic children. 
  • Source monitoring deficits in patients with schizophrenia; a multinomial modelling analysis. 
  • Spectrum of immune-mediated inner ear disease and cochlear implant results. 
  • Speech fine structure contains critical temporal cues to support speech segmentation. 
  • Stability of hearing preservation following acoustic neuroma surgery. 
  • Story recall by mentally retarded children. 
  • Stream segregation on a single electrode as a function of pulse rate in cochlear implant listeners. 
  • Streamlining the Cochlear Implant Evaluation: Utility of Community Audiometry in Cochlear Implant Candidacy Assessment. 
  • Surgical factors in pediatric cochlear implantation and their early effects on electrode activation and functional outcomes. 
  • Surprising feedback improves later memory. 
  • Talker variability shapes early word representations in English-learning 8-month-olds. 
  • Temporal pattern discrimination and speech recognition under electrical stimulation. 
  • The Revised Speech Perception in Noise Test (R-SPIN) in a multiple signal-to-noise ratio paradigm. 
  • The cortical analysis of speech-specific temporal structure revealed by responses to sound quilts. 
  • The development of a phonological illusion: a cross-linguistic study with Japanese and French infants. 
  • The development of frequency weighting for speech in children with a history of otitis media with effusion. 
  • The effect of channel interactions on speech recognition in cochlear implant subjects: predictions from an acoustic model. 
  • The effect of frequency estimation on speech recognition using an acoustic model of a cochlear implant. 
  • The effects of reverberant self- and overlap-masking on speech recognition in cochlear implant listeners. 
  • The future of cochlear implants. 
  • The labial-coronal effect revisited: Japanese adults say pata, but hear tapa. 
  • The right hemisphere and temporal processing of consonant transition durations: electrophysiological correlates. 
  • The role of the input on the development of the LC bias: a crosslinguistic comparison. 
  • Timing of cochlear implantation and parents' global ratings of children's health and development. 
  • Tracking development of speech recognition: longitudinal data from hierarchical assessments in the Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation Study. 
  • Understanding of speaker certainty and false-belief reasoning: a comparison of Japanese and German preschoolers. 
  • Unilateral Cochlear Implants for Severe, Profound, or Moderate Sloping to Profound Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review and Consensus Statements. 
  • Using channel-specific statistical models to detect reverberation in cochlear implant stimuli. 
  • Validation of the Cepstral Spectral Index of Dysphonia (CSID) as a Screening Tool for Voice Disorders: Development of Clinical Cutoff Scores. 
  • Visual input enhances selective speech envelope tracking in auditory cortex at a "cocktail party". 
  • Vowels in infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer. 
  • What Do North American Babies Hear? A large-scale cross-corpus analysis. 
  • When context is and isn't helpful: A corpus study of naturalistic speech. 
  • Word recognition for temporally and spectrally distorted materials: the effects of age and hearing loss. 
  • Young Infants' Word Comprehension Given An Unfamiliar Talker or Altered Pronunciations. 
  • Young children mostly keep, and expect others to keep, their promises. 
  • Young children's understanding of denial. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Overath, Tobias, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neruoscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Wilson, Blake Shaw, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering