Hearing loss and dementia in older adults: A narrative review

AR Huang, FR Lin - Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 2024 - journals.lww.com
The prevalence of hearing loss is high among older adults; globally, 65% of adults over 60
years have hearing loss. Over the past decade, evidence from epidemiologic studies has …

Evidence for top‐down metre perception in infancy as shown by primed neural responses to an ambiguous rhythm

E Flaten, SA Marshall, A Dittrich… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
From auditory rhythm patterns, listeners extract the underlying steady beat and perceptually
group beats to form metres. While previous studies show infants discriminate different …

Neural tracking measures of speech intelligibility: Manipulating intelligibility while kee** acoustics unchanged

IMD Karunathilake… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Neural speech tracking has advanced our understanding of how our brains rapidly map an
acoustic speech signal onto linguistic representations and ultimately meaning. It remains …

Hemispheric lateralization of linguistic prosody recognition in comparison to speech and speaker recognition

J Kreitewolf, AD Friederici, K von Kriegstein - NeuroImage, 2014 - Elsevier
Hemispheric specialization for linguistic prosody is a controversial issue. While it is
commonly assumed that linguistic prosody and emotional prosody are preferentially …

Depression and health-related quality of life among older adults with hearing loss in the ACHIEVE Study

AR Huang, NS Reed, JA Deal… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Hearing loss is associated with cognitive/physical health; less is known about mental health.
We investigated associations between hearing loss severity, depression, and health-related …

Rethinking foundations of language from a multidisciplinary perspective

T Gong, L Shuai, Y Wu - Physics of Life Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The issue of language foundations has been of great controversy ever since it was first
raised in Lenneberg's (1967) monograph Biological Foundations of Language. Based on a …

Distinct but integrated processing of lexical tones, vowels, and consonants in tonal language speech perception: Evidence from mismatch negativity

K Yu, Y Chen, M Wang, R Wang, L Li - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2022 - Elsevier
The processing of lexical tones, vowels, and consonants is significant in tonal language
speech perception. However, it remains unclear whether their processing is similar or …

Language and cognition

L Perlovsky, KL Sakai - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Interaction between language and cognition remains an unsolved scientific problem. What
are the differences in neural mechanisms of language and cognition? Why do children …

The roles of lexical tone and rime during Mandarin sentence comprehension: An event-related potential study

Y Zou, M Lui, YK Tsang - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
This study used event-related potential (ERP) recording to examine the role of lexical tone
and rime in Mandarin Chinese spoken sentence comprehension. A violation paradigm was …

Is phonological awareness related to pitch, rhythm, and speech-in-noise discrimination in young children?

R Eccles, J Van der Linde, M le Roux, J Holloway… - Language, speech, and …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose Phonological awareness (PA) requires the complex integration of language,
speech, and auditory processing abilities. Enhanced pitch and rhythm discrimination have …