[PDF] Cognitive Hearing Mechanisms Of Language Understanding Short And Long Term Perspectives eBook

Author : Maria Mody
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1493973258

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This important volume brings together significant findings on the neural bases of spoken language –its processing, use, and organization, including its phylogenetic roots. Employing a potent mix of conceptual and neuroimaging-based approaches, contributors delve deeply into specialized structures of the speech system, locating sensory and cognitive mechanisms involved in listening and comprehension, grasping meanings and storing memories. The novel perspectives revise familiar models by tracing linguistic interactions within and between neural systems, homing in on the brain’s semantic network, exploring the neuroscience behind bilingualism and multilingual fluency, and even making a compelling case for a more nuanced participation of the motor system in speech. From these advances, readers have a more three-dimensional picture of the brain—its functional epicenters, its connections, and the whole—as the seat of language in both wellness and disorders. Included in the topics: · The interaction between storage and computation in morphosyntactic processing. · The role of language in structure-dependent cognition. · Multisensory integration in speech processing: neural mechanisms of cross-modal after-effect. · A neurocognitive view of the bilingual brain. · Causal modeling: methods and their application to speech and language. · A word in the hand: the gestural origins of language. Neural Mechanisms of Language presents a sophisticated mix of detail and creative approaches to understanding brain structure and function, giving neuropsychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, developmental psychologists, cognitive psychologists, and speech/language pathologists new windows onto the research shaping their respective fields.

Author : Mark Beeman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Auditory perception
ISBN : 0805819266

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This volume investigates in depth the role of the right hemisphere in language processing at all levels. It will be of interest to researchers and students in language and neuropsychology as well as clinical neuropsychologists.

Author : Sven Mattys
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317836812

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Speech recognition in ‘adverse conditions’ has been a familiar area of research in computer science, engineering, and hearing sciences for several decades. In contrast, most psycholinguistic theories of speech recognition are built upon evidence gathered from tasks performed by healthy listeners on carefully recorded speech, in a quiet environment, and under conditions of undivided attention. Building upon the momentum initiated by the Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions workshop held in Bristol, UK, in 2010, the aim of this volume is to promote a multi-disciplinary, yet unified approach to the perceptual, cognitive, and neuro-physiological mechanisms underpinning the recognition of degraded speech, variable speech, speech experienced under cognitive load, and speech experienced by theoretically relevant populations. This collection opens with a review of the literature and a formal classification of adverse conditions. The research articles then highlight those adverse conditions with the greatest potential for constraining theory, showing that some speech phenomena often believed to be immutable can be affected by noise, surface variations, or attentional set in ways that will force researchers to rethink their theory. This volume is essential for those interested in speech recognition outside laboratory constraints.

Author : Liat Ayalon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3319738208

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This open access book provides a comprehensive perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and consequences of ageism, as well as ways to respond to and research ageism. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, gerontology, geriatrics, pharmacology, law, geography, design, engineering, policy and media studies. The contributors have collaborated to produce a truly stimulating and educating book on ageism which brings a clear overview of the state of the art in the field. The book serves as a catalyst to generate research, policy and public interest in the field of ageism and to reconstruct the image of old age and will be of interest to researchers and students in gerontology and geriatrics.

Author : Jonathan E. Peelle
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Deafness
ISBN : 2889195406

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Efficient auditory processing requires the rapid integration of transient sensory inputs. This is exemplified in human speech perception, in which long stretches of a complex acoustic signal are typically processed accurately and essentially in real-time. Spoken language thus presents listeners’ auditory systems with a considerable challenge even when acoustic input is clear. However, auditory processing ability is frequently compromised due to congenital or acquired hearing loss, or altered through background noise or assistive devices such as cochlear implants. How does loss of sensory fidelity impact neural processing, efficiency, and health? How does this ultimately influence behavior? This Research Topic explores the neural consequences of hearing loss, including basic processing carried out in the auditory periphery, computations in subcortical nuclei and primary auditory cortex, and higher-level cognitive processes such as those involved in human speech perception. By pulling together data from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, we gain a more complete picture of the acute and chronic consequences of hearing loss for neural functioning.

Author : Peter Langland-Hassan
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198796641

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Inner Speech focuses on a familiar and yet mysterious element of our daily lives. In light of renewed interest in the general connections between thought, language, and consciousness, this anthology develops a number of important new theories about internal voices and raises questions about their nature and cognitive functions.

Author : Jackie Andrade
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134616465

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Working Memory is one of the central topics in experimental psychology Offers a unique assessment and critique of the famous Baddeley and Hitch model of Working Memory Of interest to students and researchers in all areas of cognitive psychology

Author : James L. McClelland
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135706115

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A study of mechanisms of cognitive development. It is part of the "Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series" and focuses on behavioural and neural perspectives of cognitive development.