Listeners can attend to and track instruments or singing voices in complex musical mixtures,
even though the acoustical energy of sounds from individual instruments may overlap in …

Singing voices attract auditory attention in music unlike other sounds. In a previous study,
we investigated the salience of instruments and vocals using a detection task in which cued …

Objective: This study examined the relationship between hearing impairment and mental
distress. We hypothesized that fear of negative evaluation by others and avoidant …

Under adverse listening conditions, prior linguistic knowledge about the form (ie, phonology)
and meaning (ie, semantics) help us to predict what an interlocutor is about to say. Previous …

Recent human behavioral studies have shown semantic and/or lexical processing for stimuli
presented below the auditory perception threshold. Here, we investigated …

Behavioral and neural studies of selective attention have consistently demonstrated that
explicit attentional cues to particular perceptual features profoundly alter perception and …

Purpose: Prepare a list of pseudowords in Brazilian Portuguese to assess the auditory
discrimination ability of schoolchildren and investigate the internal consistency of test items …

Objetivo Elaborar uma lista de pseudopalavras em Português Brasileiro para avaliação da
habilidade de discriminação auditiva de sons da fala e investigar a consistência interna dos …

The ability to understand speech under noisy listening environments varies both between
individuals and within individuals over time. The studies presented in this dissertation …

Psychoacoustics concerns the relationship between the characteristics of an acoustic signal
and the sound perception they induce. By carefully manipulating these characteristics, it is …