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 …

During face-to-face conversational speech listeners must efficiently process a rapid and
complex stream of multisensory information. Visual speech can serve as a critical complement to …

The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was convened
to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is known on the topic, …

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 9-day period One group then …

… Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Mitchell S. Sommers,
Department of Psychology, Washington University, Campus Box 1125, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 …

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 neighborhood density in …

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 …

This study examined the effects of acoustic variability on second language vocabulary
learning. English native speakers learned new words in Spanish. Exposure frequency to the …

Three experiments were conducted within the framework of the Neighborhood Activation Model
of spoken-word recognition to study how the structural organization of the mental lexicon …

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University, Campus Box 1125, St. Louis, MO 63130. E-mail: msommers@ artsci.wustl.edu. …