title: Information-processing skill and speech-reading.
abstract: Two measures of verbal inference-making ability (a sentence-completion test; SCT, and a word-completion test; WCT) and one test of working memory capacity were examined in relation to speech-reading performance. The results demonstrated that the SCT proved to be the only variable that was substantially correlated with speech-reading performance. The contribution from working memory capacity and the WCT test to speech-reading is mainly via their contribution to the SCT. Skilled SCT-performance was particularly tied to speech-reading conditions with a low level of contextual information accompanying the speech-reading task. No general or specific difference was found between hearing-impaired and normally-hearing subjects in the speech-reading test, thus indicating that speech-reading performance cannot be predicted by factors related to the hearing-impairment. Rather, information-processing skills seem to be decisive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lyxell
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rönnberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008606:Mental Processes; D008875:Middle Aged; D013067:Speech Perception