Four groups of male undergraduates were instructed to perform complex cognitive operations when randomly presented single digits of a dichotic listening paradigm. An erotic tape recording was played into the nonattended ear. Sexual arousal varied directly as a function of the complexity of the distracting cognitive operations. (Author)

The auditory assembly abilities of 30 stuttering and 30 nonstuttering children (all in grades 1-4) were investigated. (Author/SBH)

A model for the internal representation of pitch sequences in tonal music is advanced. Pitch sequences are retained as hierarchical networks. At each level, elements are organized as structural units, in accordance with laws of figural goodness. Processing advantages of the system are discussed. (Author/BW)

An auditory Stroop task was administered to 20 children with hearing impairment (ages 3-10) and 60 normal-hearing children. Results suggest that the voice-gender and semantic dimensions of speech were not processed independently by children with or without hearing loss. Speech processing by children with hearing impairment was carried out in a…

Fourteen Dutch children with dyslexia were compared with controls on automatic processing under a dual task (motor balance task and auditory choice task) model. Results indicated the dyslexic group was more impaired in the dual task condition than in the single task condition, compared with controls. Findings support the automatization deficit…

Forty-eight children, either with or without a sensorineural hearing loss and either young (6 and 7 years old) or older (9 and 10 years old) reproduced sequences of acoustic stimuli that varied in number, temporal spacing, and type. Results suggested that the poorer performance of the hearing-impaired children was due to auditory processing…

The central auditory processing (CAP) abilities of 52 low-achieving gifted high school students were measured and compared to matching groups of achieving gifted students, average students, and students with learning disabilities. Results indicated significant CAP deficits in the low-achieving gifted group that were similar to those of the…

We present a case that is unusual in many respects from other documented incidences of auditory agnosia, including the mechanism of injury, age of the individual, and location of neurological insult. The clinical presentation is one of disturbance in the perception of spoken language, music, pitch, emotional prosody, and temporal auditory…

Evoked potential studies have demonstrated that musicians have the ability to distinguish musical sounds preattentively and automatically at the temporal, spectral, and spatial levels in more detail. It is however not known whether there is a difference in the early processes of auditory data processing of musicians. The most emphasized and…

A shadowing paradigm was used to determine the extent to which subjects could comprehend a spoken message without allocating attention or awareness to it. The paradigm involved presenting subjects with a control passage describing neutral events and an experimental passage describing embarrassing events over an unattended auditory channel.…

Individual differences in dichotic fusion experiments could be based on a number of different principles. The current working hypothesis suggests that the phenomenon reflects a language-binding effect; language-bound (LB) individuals perceive and remember events in language terms while language-optional (LO) individuals can use language structures…

Recent theories of verbal memory have hypothesized that memory for a stimulus is not represented by a unitary memory trace, but rather by a coding on several attributes of the event. The present experiment tested the differential forgetting hypothesis in a unique way. Words were presented either visually (V) or auditorally (A) in a continuous…

Research by Posner and Mitchell (1967) was used to investigate levels of noise processing in testing subjects' ability to "gate out" the processing of irrelevant and unwanted material. Three experiments are reported in which subjects had to judge whether two letters were the "same" or "different". Noise elements were included to test attention…