Listeners activate speech-sound categories in a gradient way, and this information is
maintained and affects activation of items at higher levels of processing (McMurray et al …

Auditory selective attention is a crucial top-down cognitive mechanism for understanding
speech in noise. Cochlear implant (CI) users display great variability in speech-in-noise …

Difficulties understanding speech form one of the most prevalent complaints among older
adults. Successful speech perception depends on top-down linguistic and cognitive …

Speech perception (especially in background noise) is a critical problem for hearing-
impaired listeners and an important issue for cognitive hearing science. Despite a plethora …

Selective attention enhances cortical responses to attended sensory inputs while
suppressing others, which can be an effective strategy for speech-in-noise (SiN) …

A fundamental question in the neuroscience of everyday communication is how scene
acoustics shape the neural processing of attended speech sounds and in turn impact …

Listeners are routinely exposed to many different types of speech, including artificially-
enhanced and synthetic speech, styles which deviate to a greater or lesser extent from …

Purpose Developmental dyslexia is a specific learning disorder that affects 5–17% children,
and persists into adulthood. Speech perception in noise (SPIN) ability in dyslexia has been …

Objectives: Despite the widespread use of noise reduction (NR) in modern digital hearing
aids, our neurophysiological understanding of how NR affects speech-in-noise perception …

Cochlear implants (CIs) have evolved to combine residual acoustic hearing with electric
hearing. It has been expected that CI users with residual acoustic hearing experience better …