Auditory-visual speech perception and auditory-visual enhancement in normal-hearing younger and older adults

MS Sommers, N Tye-Murray, B Spehar - Ear and hearing, 2005 - journals.lww.com
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, relative to listening or …

Audiovisual integration and lipreading abilities of older adults with normal and impaired hearing

N Tye-Murray, MS Sommers, B Spehar - Ear and hearing, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The purpose of the current study was to examine how age-related hearing
impairment affects lipreading and auditory-visual integration. The working hypothesis for the …

The structure of working memory abilities across the adult life span.

…, M Sommers, N Tye-Murray, B Spehar - Psychology and …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study addresses three questions regarding age differences in working memory:(1)
whether performance on complex span tasks decreases as a function of age at a faster …

Aging, audiovisual integration, and the principle of inverse effectiveness

N Tye-Murray, M Sommers, B Spehar, J Myerson… - Ear and …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objective The purpose of this investigation was to compare the ability of young and older
adults to integrate auditory and visual sentence materials under conditions of good and poor …

Lipreading and audiovisual speech recognition across the adult lifespan: Implications for audiovisual integration.

N Tye-Murray, B Spehar, J Myerson, S Hale… - Psychology and …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
In this study of visual (V-only) and audiovisual (AV) speech recognition in adults aged 22–92
years, the rate of age-related decrease in V-only performance was more than twice that in …

Auditory-visual discourse comprehension by older and young adults in favorable and unfavorable conditions

N Tye-Murray, M Sommers, B Spehar… - … Journal of Audiology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This investigation examined how age and test condition affect one's ability to comprehend
discourse passages, and determined whether age and test condition affect discourse …

Auditory and visual lexical neighborhoods in audiovisual speech perception

…, M Sommers, B Spehar - Trends in Amplification, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Much evidence suggests that the mental lexicon is organized into auditory neighborhoods,
with words that are phonologically similar belonging to the same neighborhood. In this …

Effects of early auditory deprivation on working memory and reasoning abilities in verbal and visuospatial domains for pediatric cochlear implant recipients

…, S Hale, MM Sommers, C Brenner, B Spehar - Ear and …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The overall goal of this study was to compare verbal and visuospatial working
memory in children with normal hearing (NH) and with cochlear implants (CI). The main …

Listening comprehension across the adult lifespan

…, J Myerson, N Rose, N Tye-Murray, B Spehar - Ear and …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Although age-related declines in perceiving spoken language are well
established, the primary focus of research has been on perception of phonemes, words, and …

Cross-modal enhancement of speech detection in young and older adults: does signal content matter?

N Tye-Murray, B Spehar, J Myerson… - Ear and …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
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 content consisted of …