A cross-linguistic validation of the test for rating emotions in speech: Acoustic analyses of emotional sentences in English, German, and Hebrew

M Carl, M Icht, BM Ben-David - 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The Test for Rating Emotions in Speech (T-RES) has been developed in order to
assess the processing of emotions in spoken language. In this tool, spoken sentences …

One size does not fit all: examining the effects of working memory capacity on spoken word recognition in older adults using eye tracking

G Nitsan, K Banai, BM Ben-David - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Difficulties understanding speech form one of the most prevalent complaints among older
adults. Successful speech perception depends on top-down linguistic and cognitive …

Age-related changes in the perception of emotions in speech: Assessing thresholds of prosody and semantics recognition in noise for young and older adults

YI Dor, D Algom, V Shakuf, BM Ben-David - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Older adults process emotions in speech differently than do young adults. However, it is
unclear whether these age-related changes impact all speech channels to the same extent …

Processing emotional prosody in a foreign language: The case of German and Hebrew

V Shakuf, B Ben-David, TGG Wegner… - Journal of Cultural …, 2022 - Springer
This study investigated the universality of emotional prosody in perception of discrete
emotions when semantics is not available. In two experiments the perception of emotional …

Detecting emotion in speech: Validating a remote assessment tool

YI Dor, D Algom, V Shakuf… - Auditory Perception & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Recent global events have called for the development of online testing and evaluation
techniques, for both clinical and research purposes. Online testing is especially important for …

The Role of Early Intact Auditory Experience on the Perception of Spoken Emotions, Comparing Prelingual to Postlingual Cochlear Implant Users

R Taitelbaum-Swead, BM Ben-David - Ear and Hearing, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Cochlear implants (CI) are remarkably effective, but have limitations regarding
the transformation of the spectro-temporal fine structures of speech. This may impair …

“Love looks not with the eyes”: supranormal processing of emotional speech in individuals with late-blindness versus preserved processing in individuals with …

BM Ben-David, DR Chebat, M Icht - Cognition and Emotion, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Processing of emotional speech in the absence of visual information relies on two auditory
channels: semantics and prosody. No study to date has investigated how blindness impacts …

Processing of spoken emotions in Schizophrenia: Forensic and non-forensic patients differ in emotional identification and integration but not in selective attention

R Leshem, M Icht, BM Ben-David - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Patients with schizophrenia (PwS) typically demonstrate deficits in visual processing of
emotions. Less is known about auditory processing of spoken-emotions, as conveyed by the …

Response to McKenzie et al. 2021: Keep it simple; young adults with autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disability can process basic emotions

M Icht, G Zukerman, E Ben-Itzchak… - Journal of Autism and …, 2023 - Springer
We recently read the interesting and informative paper entitled “Empathic accuracy and
cognitive and affective empathy in young adults with and without autism spectrum …

Lexical effects on talker discrimination in adult cochlear implant users

TN Tamati, A Jebens, D Başkent - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The lexical and phonological content of an utterance impacts the processing of talker-
specific details in normalhearing (NH) listeners. Adult cochlear implant (CI) users …