Author(s): Sares AG; Gilbert AC; Zhang Y; Iordanov M; Lehmann A; Deroche MLD;

Auditory memory is an important everyday skill evaluated more and more frequently in clinical settings as there is recently a greater recognition of the cost of hearing loss to cognitive systems. Testing often involves reading a list of unrelated items aloud; but prosodic variations in pitch and timing across the list can affect the number of items rememb ...

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Author(s): Greenlaw KM; Puschmann S; Coffey EBJ;

Hearing-in-noise perception is a challenging task that is critical to human function, but how the brain accomplishes it is not well understood. A candidate mechanism proposes that the neural representation of an attended auditory stream is enhanced relative to background sound via a combination of bottom-up and top-down mechanisms. To date, few studies ha ...

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Author(s): Paquette S; Deroche MLD; Goffi-Gomez MV; Hoshino ACH; Lehmann A;

Objective: In daily life, failure to perceive emotional expressions can result in maladjusted behaviour. For cochlear implant users, perceiving emotional cues in sounds remains challenging, and the factors explaining the variability in patients' sensitivity to emotions are currently poorly understood. Understanding how these factors r ...

Article GUID: 36047767

Author(s): Caballero JA; Auclair Ouellet N; Phillips NA; Pell MD;

Introduction: Parkinson's Disease (PD) commonly affects cognition and communicative functions, including the ability to perceive socially meaningful cues from nonverbal behavior and spoken language (e.g., a speaker's tone of voice). However, we know little about how people with PD use social information to make decisions in daily interactions (e.g ...

Article GUID: 35997248

Author(s): Chapelle A; Savard MA; Restani R; Ghaemmaghami P; Thillou N; Zardoui K; Chandrasekaran B; Coffey EBJ;

Sleep can increase consolidation of new knowledge and skills. It is less clear whether sleep plays a role in other aspects of experience-dependent neuroplasticity, which underlie important human capabilities such as spoken language processing. Theories of sensory learning differ in their predicti ...

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Author(s): Grant AM; Kousaie S; Coulter K; Gilbert AC; Baum SR; Gracco V; Titone D; Klein D; Phillips NA;

Research on bilingualism has grown exponentially in recent years. However, the comprehension of speech in noise, given the ubiquity of both bilingualism and noisy environments, has seen only limited focus. Electroencephalogram (EEG) studies in monolinguals show an increase in alpha power when lis ...

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Author(s): Laetitia Jeancolas

CONCLUSION: This study provides new insight in the characterization of sex-dependent early PD speech impairments, and demonstrates the valuable benefit of including automated voice analysis in future diagnostic procedures of prodromal PD.

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Author(s): Gilbert AC; Lee JG; Coulter K; Wolpert MA; Kousaie S; Gracco VL; Klein D; Titone D; Phillips NA; Baum SR;

Previous studies of word segmentation in a second language have yielded equivocal results. This is not surprising given the differences in the bilingual experience and proficiency of the participants and the varied experimental designs that have been used. The present study tried to account for a ...

Article GUID: 34603133

Author(s): Marentette P, Furman R, Suvanto ME, Nicoladis E

Pantomime has long been considered distinct from co-speech gesture. It has therefore been argued that pantomime cannot be part of gesture-speech integration. We examine pantomime as distinct from silent gesture, focusing on non-co-speech gestures that occur in the midst of children's spoken narratives. We propose that gestures with features of pantomi ...

Article GUID: 33329222

Author(s): Gilbert AC, Honda CT, Phillips NA, Baum SR

We examined lexical stress processing in English-French bilinguals. Auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) responses were recorded in response to English and French pseudowords, whose primary stress occurred either on a language-consistent "usual" or language-inconsistent "unusual" syllable. In most conditions, the pseudowords elicited two consecutive MMNs, a ...

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Author(s): Giroud N; Baum SR; Gilbert AC; Phillips NA; Gracco V;

Learning a second language (L2) at a young age is a driving factor of functional neuroplasticity in the auditory brainstem. To date, it remains unclear whether these effects remain stable until adulthood and to what degree the amount of exposure to the L2 in early childhood might affect their outcome. We compared three groups of adult English-French bilin ...

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