Anastasios Sarampalis
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Lexical Stress Identification in Cochlear Implant-Simulated Speech by Non-Native Listeners Open
This study investigates whether a presumed difference in the perceptibility of cues to lexical stress in spectro-temporally degraded simulated cochlear implant (CI) speech affects how listeners weight these cues during a lexical stress ide…
Prosodic Focus Interpretation in Spectrotemporally Degraded Speech by Non-Native Listeners Open
Purpose: This study assesses how spectrotemporal degradations that can occur in the sound transmission of a cochlear implant (CI) may influence the ability of non-native listeners to recognize the intended meaning of utterances based on th…
Introducing ART: a new method of testing auditory memory with circular reproduction tasks Open
Working memory research has largely focused on the visual domain, however, a full picture of working memory requires understanding its properties in other domains (e.g., auditory). Recently, working memory tasks have focused on circular re…
Foreign Language Acquisition in Adolescent Cochlear Implant Users Open
Objectives: This study explores to what degree adolescent cochlear implant (CI) users can learn a foreign language in a school setting similar to their normal-hearing (NH) peers despite the degraded auditory input. Design: A group of nativ…
Interpretation of prosodically marked focus in cochlear implant-simulated speech by non-native listeners Open
This study assesses how a cochlear implant (CI) simulation influences the interpretation of prosodically marked linguistic focus in a non-native language. In an online experiment, two groups of normal-hearing native Dutch learners of Engli…
Working-Memory, Alpha-Theta Oscillations and Musical Training in Older Age: Research Perspectives for Speech-on-speech Perception Open
During the normal course of aging, perception of speech-on-speech or “cocktail party” speech and use of working memory (WM) abilities change. Musical training, which is a complex activity that integrates multiple sensory modalities and hig…
Speech Prosody: The Musical, Magical Quality of Speech Open
When we speak, we can vary how we use our voices. Our speech can be high or low (pitch), loud or soft (loudness), and fast or slow (duration). This variation in pitch, loudness, and duration is called speech prosody. It is a bit like makin…
Meta-Analysis on the Identification of Linguistic and Emotional Prosody in Cochlear Implant Users and Vocoder Simulations Open
Objectives: This study quantitatively assesses how cochlear implants (CIs) and vocoder simulations of CIs influence the identification of linguistic and emotional prosody in nontonal languages. By means of meta-analysis, it was explored ho…
Effect of Spectral Channels on Speech Recognition, Comprehension, and Listening Effort in Cochlear-Implant Users Open
In favorable listening conditions, cochlear-implant (CI) users can reach high speech recognition scores with as little as seven active electrodes. Here, we hypothesized that even when speech recognition is high, additional spectral channel…
Perception of L2 lexical stress in words degraded by a cochlear implant simulation Open
This study investigates how the perception of L2 lexical stress is affected by an acoustic simulation of cochlear implants (CIs). We explore whether Dutch L2 learners of English are influenced by f0 differences or a vowel quality contrast …
Effects of Additional Low-Pass–Filtered Speech on Listening Effort for Noise-Band–Vocoded Speech in Quiet and in Noise Open
Objectives: Residual acoustic hearing in electric–acoustic stimulation (EAS) can benefit cochlear implant (CI) users in increased sound quality, speech intelligibility, and improved tolerance to noise. The goal of this study was to investi…
The effects of acute tryptophan depletion on speech and behavioural mimicry in individuals at familial risk for depression Open
Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been associated with abnormalities in speech and behavioural mimicry. These abnormalities may contribute to the impairments in interpersonal functioning that are often seen in MDD patients. MDD has also …
Cognitive Compensation of Speech Perception With Hearing Impairment, Cochlear Implants, and Aging Open
External degradations in incoming speech reduce understanding, and hearing impairment further compounds the problem. While cognitive mechanisms alleviate some of the difficulties, their effectiveness may change with age. In our research, r…
Does Signal Degradation Affect Top–Down Processing of Speech? Open
Speech perception is formed based on both the acoustic signal and listeners' knowledge of the world and semantic context. Access to semantic information can facilitate interpretation of degraded speech, such as speech in background noise o…