Speech-language-hearing professionals often have to assess the speech perception and comprehension of bilinguals who suffer from a hearing or processing impairment. How they do so is an interesting ...

When we listen to speech sounds, our brain needs to combine information from both hemispheres. How does the brain integrate acoustic information from remote areas? In a neuroimaging study, a team of ...

LOS ANGELES, CHENGDU, China and SYDNEY, Australia – August 13, 2007 – More than 4,000 children in China who have received cochlear implants and other devices will soon benefit from a speech perception ...

Researchers found that the motion and configuration of a speaker's lips are key components of the information people gather when distinguishing vowels in speech. For all talkers, except perhaps the ...

The aim of this paper is to define whether the language impaired childrens' artidilatory (motor) problems indicate also deficits affecting all or several areas of their speech perception and ...

A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It begins to sound like a song. This phenomenon, called the "speech-to-song illusion," can offer a window into how ...

First off: Name a person who’s always talking very quickly… OK, now name a person who’s always talking slowly… Odds are that you didn’t have to think long before you thought of (at least) two names.

The presence of amblyopia during early childhood may lead to impaired visual-auditory speech integration and alterations in speech perception, according to a study published online September 11 in ...