Subtitles Dominate Gaze and Boost Comprehension in Bilingual Instructional Videos
An eye-tracking investigation reveals that subtitles capture the vast majority of visual attention and enhance learning regardless of whether they ...
Tag: speech perception
Listeners will work for quieter listening, study finds physical effort trades off against cognitive effort
A new study shows listeners will repeatedly press keys to reduce background noise, with physical effort tracking both subjective listening ...
Bite-block listening disrupts Japanese children’s English r/l but not native s/sh
A study of 39 Japanese children aged 8 to 12 found that a bite-block worn only while listening to English ...
Children with cochlear implants gain little from preserved low-frequency hearing, study finds
A study of 14 children with cochlear implants found that preserved low-frequency hearing was rarely used and provided no statistically ...
Accent Imitation Is Largely Under Conscious Control, Speech Study Finds
A study of 136 American English speakers found people can deliberately control whether they imitate an Australian accent, but socially ...
A Daytime Nap Reveals How Sleep Brain Waves Shape Speech-Sound Memory in Adults With and Without Language Disorder
New research reveals that slow spindle density and slow oscillation coupling during a daytime nap are linked to speech-sound memory ...
Click Languages Sharpen the Ear for Hidden Conversational Sounds, Study Finds
A new cross-linguistic study shows that speakers of click languages such as Zulu and Xhosa detect paralinguistic click sounds in ...
Your Native Language Decides Whether You Hear Italian’s Double Consonants
A new study of 104 learners of Italian from five language backgrounds shows that native-language experience with sound duration largely ...
Feeling Threatened Makes Accents Sound Stronger, Study of Hong Kong Listeners Finds
A study of 691 Hong Kong undergraduates shows that perceived outgroup threat biases listeners to hear accented speech as stronger ...
A Keen Ear for Sound May Unlock Faster Foreign Language Learning
New research from UCL and Tohoku University shows that people with greater auditory precision perceive foreign speech sounds more objectively, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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