H2020Индивидуална стипендия2015–2017

SHAPED · SpeecH and Auditory Processing: Effects of Development

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2015-11-02 → 2017-11-01
Финансиране от ЕС: 183 455 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Взаимодействието между слуховите способности и обработката на речта при деца се проучва чрез примери като разбирането на говор в шумна среда. Това помага за по-доброто разбиране на усвояването на езика и рехабилитацията на деца със слухови увреждания.

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SpeecH and Auditory Processing: Effects of Development

The project “SHAPED: SpeecH and Auditory Processing: Effects of Development” started in November 2015 for 24 months and was carried out by Dr. Laurianne Cabrera at University College London, UK. The overall aim of the project was to explore the interaction between the auditory capacity and speech processing during development. The study of auditory perception is of fundamental importance for understanding speech perception and language acquisition. It is useful for understanding typical language acquisition but it also has great value for the understanding and rehabilitation of deafness, particularly in infancy and childhood. In Europe, about 1-3% of children (25,000 in the UK alone) suffer from hearing impairments. The study of speech perception exemplifies the fundamental links between auditory mechanisms and language acquisition. The overall questions addressed during the fellowship were: (i) Does the experience with a language influence auditory processing? (ii) How does the interaction between audition and speech perception develop over age? (iii) How do hearing impairments affect this relationship? Parents, teachers and clinicians were involved in the project, helping recruiting children with normal-hearing and children with hearing loss. The objectives and impacts of the research were shared with them during the project, and the overall results were communicated to the different participants via a newsletter. These studies highlighted the impact of speech and hearing research on general health and language education. The experiments carried out in this project helped to understand why young children, and particularly children learning a second language, and children with hearing loss, show more difficulties when hearing speech in noisy conditions. In a near future, the outcomes of these studies will help to improve auditory rehabilitation for hearing-impaired children, and help to improve education policy at schools.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Learning a language involves recognizing the acoustic properties of speech sounds that have a functional role. The abilities of perceiving and processing speech sounds are first constrained by basic hearing abilities. The auditory system extracts and processes the acoustic properties from the input language and thus, fully contributes to the development of phonetic categories. Surprisingly, information concerning the interaction between basic auditory capacities and early development of speech processing is still lacking. The present project seeks to combine two approaches to explore this interaction: developmental psycholinguistics, studying the acquisition of a language, and psychoacoustics, describing the auditory mechanisms linked to the perception of speech sounds. First, this project aims to investigate when and how auditory and speech processes interact. The perception of the speech acoustic information (such as spectro-temporal modulations described by psychoacoustic studies) will be assess in adults and infants from different language environments. Second, this project aims to explore further this interaction by investigating the effect of impaired auditory processes on speech perception development. The perception of speech acoustic information will be assessed in hearing-impaired children having access to the hearing world through hearing aids. This research project highlights an innovative multidisciplinary perspective within the speech perception development field. This project will have significant impacts on 1) general health (i.e., auditory rehabilitation for hearing-impaired children) and 2) language education (i.e., perception of foreign languages during development).

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · LondonКоординаторОбединеното кралство