Underwater noise, whether of natural or anthropogenic origin, has the ability to interfere with
the way in which marine mammals receive acoustic signals (ie, for communication, social …

Purpose This study explored visual speech influence in preschoolers using 3
developmentally appropriate tasks that vary in perceptual difficulty and task demands. They …

Objectives: Cochlear implantation does not automatically result in robust spoken language
understanding for postlingually deafened adults. Enormous outcome variability exists …

Purpose Several acoustic cues specify any single phonemic contrast. Nonetheless, adult,
native speakers of a language share weighting strategies, showing preferential attention to …

This article examines the masking of a complex beluga vocalization by natural and
anthropogenic noise. The call consisted of six 150 ms pulses exhibiting spectral peaks …

This study examined the effect of interruption parameters (eg, interruption rate, on-duration
and proportion), linguistic factors, and other general factors, on the recognition of interrupted …

Standard audiometric data are often applied to predict how noise influences hearing. With
regard to auditory masking, critical ratios—obtained using tonal signals and flat-spectrum …

Purpose: The primary aim was to assess whether children have difficulty distinguishing
similar-sounding novel words. The secondary aim was to assess what task characteristics …

OBJECTIVE: Valid and reliable methods for assessing speech perception in toddlers are
lacking in the field, leading to conspicuous gaps in understanding how speech perception …

Purpose This preliminary investigation explored potential cognitive and linguistic sources of
variance in 2-year-olds' speech-sound discrimination by using the toddler change/no …