Objective: The current update of the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model
evaluates the predictive and postdictive aspects of speech understanding and …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the subtle balancing act between
language input and prediction (cognitive priming of future input) to achieve understanding of …

The review gives an introductory description of the successive development of data patterns
based on comparisons between hearing-impaired and normal hearing participants' speech …

Background noise makes listening effortful and may lead to fatigue. This may compromise
classroom learning, especially for children with a non-native background. In the current …

This study aimed to investigate the relationships among social-emotional assets and
resilience, empathy and behavioral problems in DHH children. One hundred and ten DHH …

Studies of spoken word recognition have reliably shown that both younger and older adults'
recognition of acoustically degraded words is facilitated by the presence of a linguistic …

Older adults with age-related hearing loss exhibit substantial individual differences in
speech perception in adverse listening conditions. We propose that the ability to rapidly …

Research in the field of human–robot interactions (HRIs) has advanced significantly in
recent years. Social humanoid robots have undergone severe testing and have been …

The integration of virtual acoustic environments (VAEs) with functional near-infrared
spectroscopy (fNIRS) offers novel avenues to investigate behavioral and neural processes …

Purpose To elucidate how aging would affect the extent of semantic context use and the
reliance on semantic context measured with the Repeat–Recall Test (RRT). Methods A …