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How the Ear Works: Nature's Solutions for Listening.
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Brownell, William E. – Volta Review, 1997
A history of hearing and a review of the physics of sound is followed by an overview of how the ear works. The outer hair cell is the focus of particular attention because of its central role in the conversion of sound energy into neural energy used by the brain. Contains a list of recommended resources. (CR)
Descriptors: Acoustics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Children
Sibilant Production in Speakers Who Have Hearing Loss: Electopalatograhic and Perceptual Evidence
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McGarr, Nancy S.; Raphael, Lawrence J.; Kolia, Betty; Vorperian, Houri K.; Harris, Katherine – Volta Review, 2004
Using electopalatography, this study investigated the production of sibilants produced by four adults who have severe-to-profound hearing loss and four speakers with normal hearing. Each speaker wore a Rion[R] semi-flexible electroplate while producing multiple repetitions of the utterances "see, sue, she, shoe." The speakers' productions were…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Adults, Speech, Phonemes
Correlation between Auditory and Visual Performance on Two Speech Reception Tasks.
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Raney, Lynne; And Others – Volta Review, 1984
Analysis of the data showed no significant correlation between scores from the two modalities, indicating that knowledge of a person's ability to understand speech in one system provides little information about the same person's ability to understand speech in the other. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Aural Learning, Hearing Impairments
Effects of Phonotactic Probabilities on the Processing of Spoken Words and Nonwords by Postlingually Deafened Adults with Cochlear Implants.
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Vitevitch, Michael S.; Pisoni, David B.; Kirk, Karen Iler; Hay-McCutcheon, Marcia; Yount, Stacey L. – Volta Review, 2000
Two online tasks (an auditory same-different task and an auditory lexical decision task) examined the use of phonotactic information by 18 adults with cochlear implants. Cochlear implant patients with better word recognition abilities produced patterns of results similar to results obtained from listeners with normal hearing. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Auditory Perception, Cochlear Implants
Perception of "Elliptical Speech" Following Cochlear Implantation: Use of Broad Phonetic Categories in Speech Perception.
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Herman, Rebecca; Pisoni, David B. – Volta Review, 2000
A study investigated perception of elliptical speech in an adult cochlear implant patient. Two experiments were conducted using sets of meaningful and anomalous English sentences: one set contained correct place of articulation cues, the other was transformed into elliptical speech. The patient and controls labeled the sentences as the same.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Auditory Perception, Cochlear Implants
Use of Partial Information by Cochlear Implant Users and Listeners with Normal Hearing in Identifying Spoken Words: Some Preliminary Analyses.
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Lachs, Lorin; Weiss, Jonathan W.; Pisoni, David B. – Volta Review, 2000
An error analysis of the word recognition responses of 20 adult cochlear implant users and 19 typical listeners was conducted to determine the types of partial information used when they identified spoken words under auditory-alone and audiovisual conditions. Results indicate there were no significant interactions with hearing status. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Auditory Perception, Cochlear Implants
Use of the Nucleus 22 Channel Cochlear Implant System with Children.
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Staller, Steven J.; And Others – Volta Review, 1994
This paper describes components of the Nucleus 22 Channel Cochlear Implant System used with deaf children and adults. It discusses speech coding strategies, programming concepts, programming the device for children, trouble-shooting, and fitting an FM system to a speech processor. It reports data showing improved ability to use auditory…
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Audiology, Auditory Perception