Everyday conversation frequently includes challenges to the clarity of the acoustic speech
signal, including hearing impairment, background noise, and foreign accents. Although an …

Auditory attention identification methods attempt to identify the sound source of a listener's
interest by analyzing measurements of electrophysiological data. We present a tutorial on …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

The brain networks supporting speech identification and comprehension under difficult
listening conditions are not well specified. The networks hypothesized to underlie effortful …

Speech comprehension is severely compromised when several people talk at once, due to
limited perceptual and cognitive resources. In such circumstances, top-down attention …

Understanding speech in noise (SiN) is a complex task involving sensory encoding and
cognitive resources including working memory and attention. Previous work has shown that …

Everyday challenges impact our ability to hear and comprehend spoken language with
ease, such as accented speech (source factors), spectral degradation (transmission factors) …

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit atypical speech-in-noise (SiN)
perception, but the scope of these impairments has not been clearly defined. We conducted …

Human speech perception is a paradigm example of the complexity of human linguistic
processing; however, it is also the dominant way of expressing vocal identity and is critically …

There are functional and anatomical distinctions between the neural systems involved in the
recognition of sounds in the environment and those involved in the sensorimotor guidance …