This chapter gives an overview of the importance of auditory processing for successful
language learning and describes assessment measures that are not influenced by factors …

Objective One challenge in extracting the scalp-recorded frequency-following response
(FFR) is related to its inherently small amplitude, which means that the response cannot be …

Human modalities play a vital role in the way the brain produces mental representations of
the world around us. Although congenital blindness limits the understanding of the …

Subcortical phase locking tends to reflect performance differences in tasks related to pitch
perception across different types of populations. Enhancement or attenuation in its strength …

Background: The scalp-recorded frequency-following response (FFR), an auditory-evoked
potential with putative neural generators in the rostral brainstem, provides a robust …

Pitch is a robust perceptual attribute that plays an important role in speech, language, and
music. As such, it provides an analytic window to evaluate how neural activity relevant to …

While the literature is well represented in accounting for how aging influences segmental
properties of speech, less is known about its influences on suprasegmental properties such …

Accurate perception of time-variant pitch is important for speech recognition, particularly for
tonal languages with different lexical tones such as Mandarin, in which different tones …

Background: Listeners with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) have a reduced ability to use
temporal fine structure cues due to broadening of the tuning curves. Auditory evoked …

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the different degeneration processes of categorical
perception (CP) of Mandarin lexical tones in the normal aging population and the …