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Ondrej Tichacek, Pavel Mistrik, Pavel Jungwirth
Summary: This study presents a complete and physiologically justified computer model of the ear, based on experimental data, that allows for in-depth investigation of hearing mechanisms and various hearing impairments. It also enables correlation with neural recordings and psychoacoustic methods. This model is crucial for advancing our understanding of hearing, studying hearing impairments, and developing hearing aids and cochlear implants.
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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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Hasan B. Al Ba'ba'a
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JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
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JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
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Eero Koponen, Jarkko Leskinen, Tanja Tarvainen, Aki Pulkkinen
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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2023)
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Georgina Johnson, Mark Onslow, Sarah Horton, Elaina Kefalianos
Summary: This review aims to guide future clinical research by establishing interventions associated with stuttering reduction for school-age children and their immediate and longer-term effects. The study found five different treatment approaches that might reduce stuttering, but with varying effect sizes.
JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
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Zoi Gkalitsiou, Danielle Werle
Summary: This study investigated the frequency and types of disfluencies in Greek-English bilingual adults across naturalistic speech samples and compared them between the participants' L1 and L2. The results showed that participants produced more typical disfluencies in English compared to Greek. Filled pauses and vowel prolongations were the most frequent types of disfluencies observed in both languages and across speaking samples. These findings contribute to the existing literature on the manifestation of speech disfluencies in bilingual speakers.
JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
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Guofeng Zhu, Jian Kang, Hui Ma, Chao Wang
Summary: This study conducted an on-site survey to explore the perceptual dimensions of soundscape in outdoor public spaces in urban high-rise residential communities, finding four dimensions: Relaxation, Communication, Quietness, and Spatiality. The study compared the soundscape in different community layouts and discussed the correlations between different aspects of soundscape and overall satisfaction.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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Marc Sato
Summary: Visual information from a speaker's face enhances auditory neural processing and speech recognition. This study found that visual speech can influence auditory memory, and there is lower auditory neural adaptation when an auditory syllable is preceded by a visual syllable.
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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Paul W. Mitchell, Kenneth S. Henry, Laurel H. Carney
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Summary: Aminoglycoside antibiotics are a common cause of sensorineural hearing loss. The nonselective cation channel, TRPV1, has been found to contribute to the susceptibility of immature spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) to aminoglycoside-induced damage.
Correction
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Ryan A. Millager, Mary S. Dietrich, Robin M. Jones
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Ajmal A. Azees, Alex C. Thompson, Ross Thomas, Jenny Zhou, Patrick Ruther, Andrew K. Wise, Elise A. Ajay, David J. Garrett, Anita Quigley, James B. Fallon, Rachael T. Richardson
Summary: This study compares the spread of neural activity in the auditory midbrain during electrical and optical stimulation in the cochlea of mice with opsin-modified spiral ganglion neurons. Optogenetic stimulation results in reduced channel interaction and higher spatial precision compared to electrical stimulation, potentially increasing the number of independent channels in a cochlear implant and improving speech perception for recipients.
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Aaron D. Mitchel, Laina G. Lusk, Ian Wellington, Alexis T. Mook
Summary: Adults can use visual prosodic cues in the speaker's face to segment speech. The mouth may play a significant role in visual speech segmentation. This study reveals the importance of the mouth in visual prosodic cues by removing and isolating individual facial features.
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
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Erik Jorgensen, Yu-Hsiang Wu
Summary: This study investigated the effect of real-world noise on speech perception and found that entropy significantly influenced speech perception, with a larger effect in the time-domain compared to the frequency-domain. Additionally, listeners with normal hearing were more affected by entropy than listeners with hearing loss, and the effect was larger for hearing loss listeners in the aided condition. Speech perception also varied across different environment types. Combining entropy with environment type improved predictions of speech perception.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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