When we hear a new voice we automatically form a" first impression" of the voice owner's
personality; a single word is sufficient to yield ratings highly consistent across listeners. Past …

There is increasing evidence that hearing-impaired (HI) individuals do not use the same
listening strategies as normal-hearing (NH) individuals, even when wearing optimally fitted …

The present study establishes the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) as a model for
investigating the perception of human speech sounds. We report data on the discrimination …

In this study, we investigated the effect of specific noise realizations on the discrimination of
two consonants,/b/and/d/. For this purpose, we collected data from twelve participants, who …

It is now well established that extensive musical training percolates to higher levels of
cognition, such as speech processing. However, the lack of a precise technique to …

After a right hemisphere stroke, more than half of the patients are impaired in their capacity
to produce or comprehend speech prosody. Yet, and despite its social-cognitive …

Human perception depends upon internal representations of the environment that help to
organize the raw information available from the senses by acting as reference patterns …

Part of the detrimental effect caused by a stationary noise on sound perception results from
the masking of relevant amplitude modulations (AM) in the signal by random intrinsic …

Introduction The preservation of residual hearing is currently an important challenge for
cochlear implant surgeries. Indeed, if patients exhibit functional hearing after cochlear …

A vast majority of dyslexic children exhibit a phonological deficit, particularly noticeable in
phonemic identification or discrimination tasks. The gap in performance between dyslexic …