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 …

Daily-life conversation relies on speech perception in quiet and noise. Because of the
COVID-19 pandemic, face masks have become mandatory in many situations. Acoustic …

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the impacts of a surgical mask and a
transparent mask on audio-only and audiovisual speech intelligibility in noise (ie, 0 dB …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine age-and hearing-related differences in
school-age children's benefit from visual speech cues. The study addressed three …

Hearing technologies such as hearing aids, cochlear implants and bone-anchored devices
provide students with hearing loss with far greater access to auditory information (and most …

Mouth and facial movements are part and parcel of face-to-face communication. The primary
way of assessing their role in speech perception has been by manipulating their presence …

Background Cochlear implants (CIs) are considered an effective treatment for severe-to-
profound sensorineural hearing loss. However, speech perception outcomes are highly …

This study examined the effect of levels of working memory capacity, levels of background
noise, and audiovisual cues on adults' ability to process speech when listening in noise. A …

This study assessed the neural mechanisms and relative saliency of categorization for
speech sounds and comparable graphemes (ie, visual letters) of the same phonetic label …