Progress Report No. 23 (1999)

Research Supported by:
Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health -- Research Grant No. DC-00111
National Institutes of Health -- Training Grant No. DC-00012

Table of Contents

I. Extended Manuscripts

• Individual Differences in Effectiveness of Cochlear Implants in Prelingually Deaf Children: Some New Process Measures of Performance
  David B. Pisoni
   
• Some Measures of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory in Eight- and Nine-Year Old Hearing-Impaired Children with Cochlear Implants
  Miranda Cleary, David B. Pisoni and Ann Geers
   
• Use of Partial Stimulus Information in Spoken Word Recognition Without Auditory Stimulation
  Lorin Lachs
   
• Use of Gap Duration Identification in Consonant Perception by Cochlear Implant Users
  Adam R. Kaiser, Mario A. Svirsky and Ted A. Meyer
   
• Neighborhood Density, the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon, and Aging
  Michael S. Vitevitch and Mitchell S. Sommers
   
• Talker-Specific Effects in Recognition Memory for Sentences
  Kipp McMichael

II. Short Reports and Work-in Progress

• Audio-Visual Perception of Sinewave Speech in an Adult Cochlear Implant User: A Case Study
  Winston D. Goh, David B. Pisoni, Karen I. Kirk and Robert E. Remez
   
• Sublexical Influences on Lexical Development in Children
  Holly L. Storkel
   
• The Effect of Linguistic Experience on Perceptual Similarity Among Nasal Consonants: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis
  James D. Harnsberger
   
• A Voice is a Face is a Voice: Cross-Modal Source Identification of Indexical Information in Speech
  Lorin Lachs
   
• New Directions in Pediatric Cochlear Implantation
  Karen I. Kirk, Laurie S. Eisenberg and Richard T. Miyamoto
   
• Early Implantation and the Development of Communication Abilities in Children
  Richard T. Miyamoto, Karen I. Kirk, Susan T. Sehgal, Cara Lento and Julie Wirth
   
• Lexical Neighborhoods and Release from Proactive Interference: A First Report
  Winston D. Goh
   
• Perception and Production of Intonational Contrasts in an Adult Cochlear Implant User
  Rebecca Herman and Cynthia Clopper
   
• Speech Intelligibility of Pediatric Hearing Aid Users
  Mario A. Svirsky, Steven B. Chin, Matthew D. Caldwell, and Richard T. Miyamoto
   
• Eliciting Speech Reduction in the Laboratory II: Calibrating Cognitive Loads for Individual Talkers
  James D. Harnsberger and David B. Pisoni
   
• Effects of Multimodal Presentation and Lexical Density on Immediate Memory Span for Spoken Words
  Lorin Lachs, Winston D. Goh and David B. Pisoni
   
• The Influence of Lexical Neighborhoods and Stimulus Sampling Procedures on Children’s Immediate Memory Span for Spoken Words: A Report of Work in Progress
  Miranda Cleary, Winston D. Goh, Jaime Brumfield and David B. Pisoni
   
• Audio-Visual Integrative Abilities of Prelingually Deafened Children with Cochlear Implants: A First Report.
  Lorin Lachs, Karen I. Kirk and David B. Pisoni
   
• “Vowel Spaces” of Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners with Cochlear Implants
  James D. Harnsberger, Mario A. Svirsky, Adam R. Kaiser, Richard Wright, and David B. Pisoni
   
• A Real Time PC Based Cochlear Implant Speech Processor with an Interface to the Nucleus 22 Electrode Cochlear Implant and a Filtered Noiseband Simulation
  Adam R. Kaiser and Mario A. Svirsky