Search Results - "SOMMERS, Mitchell S"

Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy: The Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening (FUEL) by Pichora-Fuller, M. Kathleen, Kramer, Sophia E., Eckert, Mark A., Edwards, Brent, Hornsby, Benjamin W.Y., Humes, Larry E., Lemke, Ulrike, Lunner, Thomas, Matthen, Mohan, Mackersie, Carol L., Naylor, Graham, Phillips, Natalie A., Richter, Michael, Rudner, Mary, Sommers, Mitchell S., Tremblay, Kelly L., Wingfield, Arthur

“…The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was convened to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is…”
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Age-Related Differences in Inhibitory Control Predict Audiovisual Speech Perception by Dey, Avanti, Sommers, Mitchell S.

“…Audiovisual (AV) speech perception is the process by which auditory and visual sensory signals are integrated and used to understand what a talker is saying…”
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Audiovisual speech perception: Moving beyond McGurk by Van Engen, Kristin J, Dey, Avanti, Sommers, Mitchell S, Peelle, Jonathan E

“…Although it is clear that sighted listeners use both auditory and visual cues during speech perception, the manner in which multisensory information is…”
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Using Eye-Tracking to Investigate an Activation-Based Account of False Hearing in Younger and Older Adults by Failes, Eric, Sommers, Mitchell S

“…Several recent studies have demonstrated context-based, high-confidence misperceptions in hearing, referred to as . These studies have unanimously found that…”
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Auditory-Visual Speech Perception and Auditory-Visual Enhancement in Normal-Hearing Younger and Older Adults by Sommers, Mitchell S, Tye-Murray, Nancy, Spehar, Brent

“…OBJECTIVE:The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of age on the ability to benefit from combining auditory and visual speech information,…”
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The facilitative influence of phonological similarity and neighborhood frequency in speech production in younger and older adults by VITEVITCH, Michael S, SOMMERS, Mitchell S

“…A tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) elicitation task and a picture-naming task were used to examine the role of neighborhood frequency as well as word frequency and…”
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Cross-Modal Enhancement of Speech Detection in Young and Older Adults: Does Signal Content Matter? by Tye-Murray, Nancy, Spehar, Brent, Myerson, Joel, Sommers, Mitchell S, Hale, Sandra

“…OBJECTIVE:The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of age and visual content on cross-modal enhancement of auditory speech detection. Visual…”
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Prediction and constraint in audiovisual speech perception by Peelle, Jonathan E., Sommers, Mitchell S.

“…During face-to-face conversational speech listeners must efficiently process a rapid and complex stream of multisensory information. Visual speech can serve as…”
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Age-Related Differences in Auditory Cortex Activity During Spoken Word Recognition by Rogers, Chad S., Jones, Michael S., McConkey, Sarah, Spehar, Brent, Van Engen, Kristin J., Sommers, Mitchell S., Peelle, Jonathan E.

“…Understanding spoken words requires the rapid matching of a complex acoustic stimulus with stored lexical representations. The degree to which brain networks…”
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Blurring past and present: Using false memory to better understand false hearing in young and older adults by Failes, Eric, Sommers, Mitchell S., Jacoby, Larry L.

“…A number of recent studies have shown that older adults are more susceptible to context-based misperceptions in hearing (Rogers, Jacoby, & Sommers, Psychology…”
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Listening Effort in Younger and Older Adults: A Comparison of Auditory-Only and Auditory-Visual Presentations by Sommers, Mitchell S., Phelps, Damian

“…One goal of the present study was to establish whether providing younger and older adults with visual speech information (both seeing and hearing a talker…”
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Using the DRM paradigm to assess language processing in monolinguals and bilinguals by Bialystok, Ellen, Dey, Avanti, Sullivan, Margot D., Sommers, Mitchell S.

“…Both languages are jointly activated in the bilingual brain, requiring bilinguals to select the target language while avoiding interference from the unwanted…”
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Age Differences in the Effects of Speaking Rate on Auditory, Visual, and Auditory-Visual Speech Perception by Sommers, Mitchell S., Spehar, Brent, Tye-Murray, Nancy, Myerson, Joel, Hale, Sandra

“…OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to examine how speaking rate affects auditory-only, visual-only, and auditory-visual speech perception across the adult…”
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Give me a break! Unavoidable fatigue effects in cognitive pupillometry by McLaughlin, Drew J., Zink, Maggie E., Gaunt, Lauren, Reilly, Jamie, Sommers, Mitchell S., Van Engen, Kristin J., Peelle, Jonathan E.

“…Pupillometry has a rich history in the study of perception and cognition. One perennial challenge is that the magnitude of the task‐evoked pupil response…”
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Pupillometry reveals cognitive demands of lexical competition during spoken word recognition in young and older adults by McLaughlin, Drew J., Zink, Maggie E., Gaunt, Lauren, Brent Spehar, Van Engen, Kristin J., Sommers, Mitchell S., Peelle, Jonathan E.

“…In most contemporary activation-competition frameworks for spoken word recognition, candidate words compete against phonological “neighbors” with similar…”
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An Age-Related Deficit in Resolving Interference: Evidence From Speech Perception by Dey, Avanti, Sommers, Mitchell S., Hasher, Lynn

“…The presence of noise and interfering information can pose major difficulties during speech perception, particularly for older adults. Analogously,…”
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Speech Perception as a Talker-Contingent Process by Nygaard, Lynne C., Sommers, Mitchell S., Pisoni, David B.

“…To determine how familiarity with a talker's voice affects perception of spoken words, we trained two groups of subjects to recognize a set of voices over a…”
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Increased Connectivity among Sensory and Motor Regions during Visual and Audiovisual Speech Perception by Peelle, Jonathan E, Spehar, Brent, Jones, Michael S, McConkey, Sarah, Myerson, Joel, Hale, Sandra, Sommers, Mitchell S, Tye-Murray, Nancy

“…In everyday conversation, we usually process the talker's face as well as the sound of the talker's voice. Access to visual speech information is particularly…”
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Lipreading in School-Age Children: The Roles of Age, Hearing Status, and Cognitive Ability by Tye-Murray, Nancy, Hale, Sandra, Spehar, Brent, Myerson, Joel, Sommers, Mitchell S

“…Purpose: The study addressed three research questions: Does lipreading improve between the ages of 7 and 14 years? Does hearing loss affect the development of…”
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Subglottal resonances of American English speaking children by Yeung, Gary, Lulich, Steven M., Guo, Jinxi, Sommers, Mitchell S., Alwan, Abeer

“…This paper presents an investigation of children's subglottal resonances (SGRs), the natural frequencies of the tracheo-bronchial acoustic system. A total of…”
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