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View article: Musical abilities influence the use of durational prosodic cues in spoken word recognition.
Musical abilities influence the use of durational prosodic cues in spoken word recognition. Open
Prosody plays a fundamental role in both speech and music. In spoken language, word-level local prosodic cues, such as segment duration, contribute to word recognition. This study investigated whether individual differences in musical abil…
View article: Correction: Use of a humanoid robot for auditory psychophysical testing
Correction: Use of a humanoid robot for auditory psychophysical testing Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294328.].
View article: Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study Open
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicians with more than 10 years of music training and practice) are compared with no…
View article: No Association Between Vocal Emotion Recognition and Subjective Parental Reporting of Alexithymia in School-Age Children With Hearing Aids
No Association Between Vocal Emotion Recognition and Subjective Parental Reporting of Alexithymia in School-Age Children With Hearing Aids Open
Objectives: Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing one’s own emotions. Alexithymia has previously been associated with deficits in the processing of emotional information at both behavioral and neurobiol…
View article: The Time Course of the Pupillary Response to Auditory Emotions in Pseudospeech, Music, and Vocalizations
The Time Course of the Pupillary Response to Auditory Emotions in Pseudospeech, Music, and Vocalizations Open
Emotions can be communicated through visual and dynamic characteristics such as smiles and gestures, but also through auditory channels such as laughter, music, and human speech. Pupil dilation has become a notable marker for visual emotio…
View article: Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians
Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians Open
The Music Ensemble dataset is a large-scale, cross-national database that provides detailed information about the musical, cognitive, personality, and demographic profiles of musicians and nonmusicians. Data were collected from 1438 partic…
View article: Empathy in Musicians: Self‐Report Versus Performance on an Empathic Accuracy Task
Empathy in Musicians: Self‐Report Versus Performance on an Empathic Accuracy Task Open
Some studies indicate enhanced vocal emotion recognition and emotional prosody perception in musicians. Music perception has been linked to emotion processing. Collective music making has been found to rely on responding to and sharing the…
View article: Vocal Emotion Recognition in School-Age Children With Hearing Aids
Vocal Emotion Recognition in School-Age Children With Hearing Aids Open
Objectives: In individuals with normal hearing, vocal emotion recognition continues to develop over many years during childhood. In children with hearing loss, vocal emotion recognition may be affected by combined effects from loss of audi…
View article: The Auditory Environment at Early Intervention Groups for Young Children With Hearing Loss: Signal to Noise Ratio, Background Noise, and Reverberation
The Auditory Environment at Early Intervention Groups for Young Children With Hearing Loss: Signal to Noise Ratio, Background Noise, and Reverberation Open
Objectives: One important aspect in facilitating language access for children with hearing loss (HL) is the auditory environment. An optimal auditory environment is characterized by high signal to noise ratios (SNRs), low background noise …
View article: Digits-in-Noise test implementations for onsite and online testing with normal-hearing adults
Digits-in-Noise test implementations for onsite and online testing with normal-hearing adults Open
Introduction: To investigate the effects of frequently used variations of the Digits-in-Noise (DIN) test on speech reception threshold (SRT) for onsite and online implementations. Methods: We tested various DIN test implementations in a wi…
View article: Assessment of Speech Processing and Listening Effort Associated With Speech-on-Speech Masking Using the Visual World Paradigm and Pupillometry
Assessment of Speech Processing and Listening Effort Associated With Speech-on-Speech Masking Using the Visual World Paradigm and Pupillometry Open
Speech-on-speech masking is a common and challenging situation in everyday verbal communication. The ability to segregate competing auditory streams is a necessary requirement for focusing attention on the target speech. The Visual World P…
View article: Speech-in-noise, psychosocial, and heart rate variability outcomes of group singing or audiobook club interventions for older adults with unaddressed hearing loss: A SingWell Project multisite, randomized controlled trial, registered report protocol
Speech-in-noise, psychosocial, and heart rate variability outcomes of group singing or audiobook club interventions for older adults with unaddressed hearing loss: A SingWell Project multisite, randomized controlled trial, registered report protocol Open
Background Unaddressed age-related hearing loss is highly prevalent among older adults, typified by negative consequences for speech-in-noise perception and psychosocial wellbeing. There is promising evidence that group singing may enhance…
View article: Perception of voice cues and speech-in-speech by children with prelingual single-sided deafness and a cochlear implant
Perception of voice cues and speech-in-speech by children with prelingual single-sided deafness and a cochlear implant Open
Voice cues, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal tract length (VTL), help listeners identify the speaker's gender, perceive the linguistic and emotional prosody, and segregate competing talkers. Postlingually implanted adult cochle…
View article: Are All Conversational Turns Equal? Parental Language Input and Child Language in Children with Hearing Loss during Daily Interactions
Are All Conversational Turns Equal? Parental Language Input and Child Language in Children with Hearing Loss during Daily Interactions Open
(1) Background: Conversational turns between parents and children contribute to the language development of children. This study aimed to examine parental language input during interactions with high numbers of conversational turns (focuse…
View article: Neural Adaptation at Stimulus Onset and Speed of Neural Processing as Critical Contributors to Speech Comprehension Independent of Hearing Threshold or Age
Neural Adaptation at Stimulus Onset and Speed of Neural Processing as Critical Contributors to Speech Comprehension Independent of Hearing Threshold or Age Open
Background: It is assumed that speech comprehension deficits in background noise are caused by age-related or acquired hearing loss. Methods: We examined young, middle-aged, and older individuals with and without hearing threshold loss usi…
View article: Vocal and musical emotion perception, voice cue discrimination, and quality of life in cochlear implant users with and without acoustic hearing
Vocal and musical emotion perception, voice cue discrimination, and quality of life in cochlear implant users with and without acoustic hearing Open
This study aims to provide a comprehensive picture of auditory emotion perception in cochlear implant (CI) users by (1) investigating emotion categorization in both vocal (pseudo-speech) and musical domains and (2) how individual differenc…
View article: Prelingually Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants Show Better Perception of Voice Cues and Speech in Competing Speech Than Postlingually Deaf Adults With Cochlear Implants
Prelingually Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants Show Better Perception of Voice Cues and Speech in Competing Speech Than Postlingually Deaf Adults With Cochlear Implants Open
Objectives: Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (CIs) have difficulties with perceiving differences in speakers’ voice characteristics and benefit little from voice differences for the perception of speech in competing speech.…
View article: Lexical effects on talker discrimination in adult cochlear implant users
Lexical effects on talker discrimination in adult cochlear implant users Open
The lexical and phonological content of an utterance impacts the processing of talker-specific details in normal-hearing (NH) listeners. Adult cochlear implant (CI) users demonstrate difficulties in talker discrimination, particularly for …
View article: Evaluating speech-in-speech perception via a humanoid robot
Evaluating speech-in-speech perception via a humanoid robot Open
Introduction Underlying mechanisms of speech perception masked by background speakers, a common daily listening condition, are often investigated using various and lengthy psychophysical tests. The presence of a social agent, such as an in…
View article: Lexical Stress Identification in Cochlear Implant-Simulated Speech by Non-Native Listeners
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…
View article: Speech-on-speech perception in adult cochlear implant users: Benefits from voice differences
Speech-on-speech perception in adult cochlear implant users: Benefits from voice differences Open
Speech-on-speech perception remains a challenge for many cochlear implant (CI) users.In normal-hearing listeners, differences in voice characteristics such as F0 and vocaltract length (VTL), which indicate age, sex and size of the speaker,…
View article: Real-time speech segregation and listening effort during speech-on-speech masking - Examination based on a Visual World Paradigm
Real-time speech segregation and listening effort during speech-on-speech masking - Examination based on a Visual World Paradigm Open
The ability to segregate competing auditory streams is a necessary prerequisite to focus attention on the target speech during speech-on-speech masking.The Visual World Paradigm (VWP) gives insight into language processing by visually pres…
View article: Perception of voice cues in school-age children with hearing aids
Perception of voice cues in school-age children with hearing aids Open
The just-noticeable differences (JNDs) of the voice cues of voice pitch (F0) and vocal-tract length (VTL) were measured in school-aged children with bilateral hearing aids and children and adults with normal hearing. The JNDs were larger f…
View article: Automated Speech Audiometry: Can It Work Using Open-Source Pre-Trained Kaldi-NL Automatic Speech Recognition?
Automated Speech Audiometry: Can It Work Using Open-Source Pre-Trained Kaldi-NL Automatic Speech Recognition? Open
A practical speech audiometry tool is the digits-in-noise (DIN) test for hearing screening of populations of varying ages and hearing status. The test is usually conducted by a human supervisor (e.g., clinician), who scores the responses s…
View article: Phase coding in phoneme processing slows with age
Phase coding in phoneme processing slows with age Open
The comprehension of phonemes is a fundamental component of speech processing which relies on both, temporal fine structure (TFS) and temporal envelope (TE) coding. EEG amplitude in response to phonemes has been identified as indicator of …
View article: Neural adaptation at stimulus onset and speed of neural processing as critical contributors to speech comprehension independent of hearing threshold or age
Neural adaptation at stimulus onset and speed of neural processing as critical contributors to speech comprehension independent of hearing threshold or age Open
Loss of afferent auditory fiber function (cochlear synaptopathy) has been suggested to occur before a clinically measurable deterioration of subjective hearing threshold. This so-called “hidden” hearing loss is characterized by speech comp…
View article: Evaluating Speech-in-Speech Perception via a Humanoid Robot
Evaluating Speech-in-Speech Perception via a Humanoid Robot Open
Underlying mechanisms of speech perception masked by background speakers, a common daily listening condition, are often investigated using various and lengthy psychophysical tests. The presence of a social agent, such as an interactive hum…