Speech perception in dyslexia is characterized by a categorical perception (CP) deficit,
demonstrated by weaker discrimination of acoustic differences between phonemic …

Time provides a fundamental dimension for perceiving sounds (Viemeister & Plack 1993;
Eddins & Green 1995; Phillips 2012). Temporal processing is essential for the detection of …

There is much interest in the idea that musicians perform better than non-musicians in
understanding speech in background noise. Research in this area has often used energetic …

During spoken language comprehension listeners transform continuous acoustic cues into
categories (eg,/b/and/p/). While long-standing research suggests that phonetic categories …

Speech perception deficits are commonly reported in dyslexia but longitudinal evidence that
poor speech perception compromises learning to read is scant. We assessed the hypothesis …

Objective: A key ingredient to academic success is being able to read. Deaf individuals have
historically failed to develop literacy skills comparable with those of their normal-hearing …

Listening in noisy environments requires effort-the active engagement of attention and other
cognitive abilities-as well as increased arousal. The ability to separately quantify the …

It is known that some adult listeners have more sharply defined perceptual categories than
others, and listeners with more precise auditory targets are also more precise in their …

In diverse areas of linguistics, the demand for studying actual language use is on the
increase. The aim of develo** a phonetically-based multi-purpose database of Hungarian …

Developmental dyslexia is associated with impaired speech-in-noise perception. The goal of
the present research was to further characterize this deficit in dyslexic adults. In order to …