Publications by authors named "J Tuomainen"
This study compared cortical responses to speech in preschoolers with typical language development (TLD) and with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). We investigated whether top-down language effects modulate speech perception in young children in an adult-like manner. We compared cortical mismatch responses (MMRs) during the passive perception of speech contrasts in three groups of participants: preschoolers with TLD (n = 11), preschoolers with DLD (n = 16), and adults (n = 20).
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- - In face-to-face communication, multimodal cues like prosody, gestures, and mouth movements help both native (L1) and non-native (L2) language processing, but their effects on L2 comprehension are less understood.
- - The study measured the impact of these multimodal cues on L2 comprehenders by analyzing their brain responses to language while watching videos, finding that these cues can facilitate comprehension but are used less effectively by L2 learners than by L1 speakers.
- - Results indicated that while L2 comprehenders benefitted from meaningful gestures and informative mouth movements, they overall relied on multimodal cues to a lesser extent than L1 comprehenders, who processed all types of cues more efficiently.
Introduction: Abnormal facial growth is a recognized outcome in cleft lip and palate (CLP), resulting in a concave profile and a class III occlusal status. Maxillary osteotomy (MO) is undertaken to correct this facial deformity, and the surgery can impact speech articulation, although the evidence remains limited and ill-defined for the CLP population.
Aims: The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of MO on the production of the fricatives /f/ and /s/, using perceptual and acoustic analyses, and to explore the nature of speech changes.
The effects of threatening stimuli, including threatening language, on trait anxiety have been widely studied. However, whether anxiety levels have a direct effect on language processing has not been so consistently explored. The present study focuses on event-related potential (ERP) patterns resulting from electroencephalographic (EEG) measurement of participants' (n = 36) brain activity while they perform a dichotic listening task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction, comprising cues such as prosody, co-speech gestures and mouth movements. Yet, the multimodal context is usually stripped away in experiments as dominant paradigms focus on linguistic processing only. In two studies we presented video-clips of an actress producing naturalistic passages to participants while recording their electroencephalogram.
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