Effect of hearing loss on semantic access by auditory and audiovisual speech in children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This research studied whether the mode of input (auditory versus audiovisual) influenced semantic access by speech in children with sensorineural hearing impairment (HI).

Design

Participants, 31 children with HI and 62 children with normal hearing (NH), were tested with the authors' new multimodal picture word task. Children were instructed to name pictures displayed on a monitor and ignore auditory or audiovisual speech distractors. The semantic content of the distractors was varied to be related versus unrelated to the pictures (e.g., picture distractor of dog-bear versus dog-cheese, respectively). In children with NH, picture-naming times were slower in the presence of semantically related distractors. This slowing, called semantic interference, is attributed t

SUBMITTER: Jerger S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3796142 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature