It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

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 …

Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-
attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether …

Listening requires selective neural processing of the incoming sound mixture, which in
humans is borne out by a surprisingly clean representation of attended-only speech in …

For seventy years, auditory selective attention research has focused on studying the
cognitive mechanisms of prioritizing the processing a 'main'task-relevant stimulus, in the …

The ability to selectively attend to a speech signal amid competing sounds is a significant
challenge, especially for listeners trying to comprehend non-native speech. Attention is …

Difficulties in selectively attending to one among several speakers have mainly been
associated with the distraction caused by ignored speech. Thus, in the current study, we …

The well-known “cocktail party effect” refers to incidental detection of salient words, such as
one's own-name, in supposedly unattended speech. However, empirical investigation of the …

Learning and using multiple languages places major demands on our neurocognitive
system, which can impact the way the brain processes information. Here we investigated …

Portions of this work were presented in “The effect of spectral resolution on dichotic listening
performance and effort” at the Association for Research and Otolaryngology Midwinter …