Vocabulary size has been suggested as a useful measure of “verbal abilities” that correlates
with speech recognition scores. Knowing more words is linked to better speech recognition …

The relationship between working memory and speech has been a topic of intense research
interest and investigation for many years. Memory studies have found that the active …

The perceptual clarity of speech is influenced by more than just the acoustic quality of the
sound; it also depends on contextual support. For example, a degraded sentence is …

Intelligence differences of individuals are attributed to the structural and functional
differences of the brain. Neural processing operations of the human brain vary according to …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between working
memory (WM) capacity and speech recognition in noise in both a group of young adults and …

Introduction Understanding speech in noisy environments is challenging even for
individuals with normal hearing, and it poses a significant challenge for those with hearing …

Studies examining visuospatial working memory (WM) in individuals with congenital
deafness have yielded inconsistent results, and tactile WM has rarely been examined. The …

Listening difficulties (LiD) in people who have normal audiometry are a widespread but
poorly understood form of hearing impairment. Recent research suggests that childhood LiD …

Under adverse listening conditions, prior linguistic knowledge about the form (ie, phonology)
and meaning (ie, semantics) help us to predict what an interlocutor is about to say. Previous …

The current study characterized subcortical speech sound processing among monolinguals
and bilinguals in quiet and challenging listening conditions and examined the relation …