Purpose Early studies of perceptual learning of dysarthric speech, those summarized in
Borrie, McAuliffe, and Liss (2012), yielded preliminary evidence that listeners could learn to …

The literature surrounding auditory perceptual learning and auditory training for challenging
speech signals in older adult listeners is highly varied, in terms of both study methodology …

When encountering speakers whose accents differ from the listener's own, listeners initially
show a processing cost, but that cost can be attenuated after short term exposure. The extent …

Listeners vary in their ability to understand speech in adverse conditions. Differences in both
cognitive and linguistic capacities play a role, but increasing evidence suggests that such …

Purpose: We proposed and tested a causal instantiation of the World Health Organization's
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework, linking …

Previous research has shown that native listeners benefit from clearly produced speech, as
well as from predictable semantic context when these enhancements are delivered in native …

Purpose: Although recruitment of cognitive-linguistic resources to support dysarthric speech
perception and adaptation is presumed by theoretical accounts of effortful listening and …

Purpose Familiarization tasks offer a promising platform for listener-targeted remediation of
intelligibility disorders associated with dysarthria. To date, the body of work demonstrating …

Purpose: We investigate in this study how individual variability in native language speech
perception (termed Perceptual Sensitivity) influences nonnative speech perception in …

Foreign accents have been shown to have considerable impact on how language is
processed. However, the impact of a foreign accent on semantic processing is not well …