Individual differences in top-down restoration of interrupted speech: Links to linguistic and cognitive abilities

Michel Ruben Benard; Jorien Susanne Mensink; Deniz Başkent

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Individual differences in top-down restoration of interrupted speech: Links to linguistic and cognitive abilities

Michel Ruben Benard^*, Jorien Susanne Mensink, Deniz Başkent

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Abstract

Top-down restoration mechanisms can enhance perception of degraded speech. Even in normal hearing, however, a large variability has been observed in how effectively individuals can benefit from these mechanisms. To investigate if this variability is partially caused by individuals' linguistic and cognitive skills, normal-hearing participants of varying ages were assessed for receptive vocabulary (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; PPVT-III-NL), for full-scale intelligence (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; WAIS-IV-NL), and for top-down restoration of interrupted speech (with silent or noise-filled gaps). Receptive vocabulary was significantly correlated with the other measures, suggesting linguistic skills to be highly involved in restoration of degraded speech. (C) 2014 Acoustical Society of America

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	EL88-EL94
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume	135
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4862879
Publication status	Published - Feb-2014

Keywords

PHONEMIC RESTORATION
INTELLIGIBILITY
RECOGNITION
DEGRADATION
PERCEPTION

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