What we do (not) know about the mechanisms underlying adaptive speech perception: A computational framework and review

X Xie, TF Jaeger, C Kurumada - Cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

Cognitive performance in short sleep young adults with different physical activity levels: a cross-sectional fNIRS study

Y You, J Liu, D Wang, Y Fu, R Liu, X Ma - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Short sleep is a common issue nowadays. The purpose of this study was to investigate
prefrontal cortical hemodynamics by evaluating changes in concentrations of oxygenated …

Brightening the study of listening effort with functional near-infrared spectroscopy: A scoping review

HE Shatzer, FA Russo - Seminars in Hearing, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
Listening effort is a long-standing area of interest in auditory cognitive neuroscience. Prior
research has used multiple techniques to shed light on the neurophysiological mechanisms …

Prefrontal cortex supports speech perception in listeners with cochlear implants

A Sherafati, N Dwyer, A Bajracharya, MS Hassanpour… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cochlear implants are neuroprosthetic devices that can restore hearing in people with
severe to profound hearing loss by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve. Because of …

Cortical responses correlate with speech performance in pre-lingually deaf cochlear implant children

XQ Zhou, QL Zhang, X Xi, MR Leng, H Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Cochlear implantation is currently the most successful intervention for severe-to-
profound sensorineural hearing loss, particularly in deaf infants and children. Nonetheless …

Cortical activation in response to speech differs between prelingually deafened cochlear implant users with good or poor speech-in-noise understanding: an fNIRS …

M Levin, M Balberg, Y Zaltz - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cochlear implant (CI) users with prelingual deafness (hearing impairment started before
language development was completed) show variable speech-in-noise (SIN) …

Neural Correlates of Speech Comprehension in Normal Hearing Individuals and Cochlear Implant Users-An fNIRS Study in Quiet and Noisy Environments

A Bálint, W Wimmer, C Rummel… - 2024 46th Annual …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study investigates neural activity during a clinical hearing test transformed into a
neuroimaging speech paradigm, focusing on individuals with cochlear implants (CIs) and …

Vocal Control and Speech Production in Cochlear Implant Listeners: A Review within Auditory-Motor Processing Framework

S Ashjaei, R Behroozmand, S Fozdar, R Farrar… - Hearing Research, 2024 - Elsevier
A comprehensive literature review is conducted to summarize and discuss prior findings on
how cochlear implants (CI) affect the users' abilities to produce and control vocal and …

[HTML][HTML] Brain activation patterns in normal hearing adults: An fNIRS Study using an adapted clinical speech comprehension task

A Bálint, W Wimmer, M Caversaccio, C Rummel… - Hearing Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Objectives Understanding brain processing of auditory and visual speech is essential for
advancing speech perception research and improving clinical interventions for individuals …

25-year neuroimaging research on spoken language processing: a bibliometric analysis

Y Zheng, B Zhang - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Spoken language processing is of huge interest to cognitive and neural
scientists, as it is the dominant channel for everyday verbal communication. The aim of this …