Sentence examples for comprehension of speech from inspiring English sources

Wernicke area, region of the brain that contains motor neurons involved in the comprehension of speech.

This area appears to be uniquely important for the comprehension of speech sounds and is considered to be the receptive language, or language comprehension, centre.

Posterior cerebral infarcts cause loss of vision in the opposite half of the visual field and sometimes difficulty in the comprehension of speech (called receptive aphasia).

The posterior part of this area is involved more in the comprehension of speech and the construction of grammatically and semantically coherent utterances, and the anterior part is concerned with the articulation of speech and with writing.

The transformational model has also been adapted for another field of psycholinguistics, the processing and comprehension of speech; early experiments in this area suggested, for example, that passive sentences took longer to process than their active counterparts because an extra grammatical rule was necessary to produce the passive sentence.

Another recent study suggests potential negative effects of some types of gestures on listeners' comprehension of speech in a spatial task (Suppes, Tzeng & Galguera, 2015), although it is not clear whether the negative effect in this study was due to the gesture or to the associated speech.

However, there is fMRI evidence for motor cortex recruitment during comprehension of degraded speech, when compared with clear speech, even when simple auditory detection tasks are used (Osnes et al. 2011; Hervais-Adelman et al. 2012).

FOXP2 mutations in humans are associated with a disorder that affects both the comprehension of language and its production, speech[ 47].

These results also imply that the initial comprehension of the speech acts of Requests might take place mainly based on the action sequence structure of the speech act, possibly by rapid simulation of the subsequent actions within the pragmatic action tree.

We focused our analysis on the low-frequency information in the speech signal based on prior studies and the knowledge that envelope information is critically important for comprehension of vocoded speech (Drullman et al. 1994; Shannon et al. 1995).

Damage to the dominant temporal lobe, located inferior to the lateral sulcus, results in difficulty with comprehension of spoken speech.