Open AccessHearing Impairment and Perceived Clarity of Predictable Speech
Author(s) -
Carine Signoret,
Mary Rudner
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ear and hearing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.577
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1538-4667
pISSN - 0196-0202
DOI - 10.1097/aud.0000000000000689
Subject(s) - clarity , speech perception , psychology , comprehension , fluency , perception , stimulus (psychology) , cognitive psychology , meaning (existential) , audiology , intelligibility (philosophy) , speech recognition , computer science , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , mathematics education , epistemology , neuroscience , psychotherapist , programming language
The precision of stimulus-driven information is less critical for comprehension when accurate knowledge-based predictions of the upcoming stimulus can be generated. A recent study in listeners without hearing impairment (HI) has shown that form- and meaning-based predictability independently and cumulatively enhance perceived clarity of degraded speech. In the present study, we investigated whether form- and meaning-based predictability enhanced the perceptual clarity of degraded speech for individuals with moderate to severe sensorineural HI, a group for whom such enhancement may be particularly important.