title: Influence of language experience on digit recognition by English and Chinese listeners.
abstract: Digit recognition was measured in quiet and in two noise conditions by English-native (EN) and Chinese-native (CN) listeners. EN listeners were tested using English digits and CN listeners were tested using both English and Chinese digits. In quiet, forward digit span recall worsened for both groups as the number of digits was increased. Significant effects of language experience were observed with five or more digits. Language experience had a significant effect on digit recognition in babble but not in steady noise. These results suggest that understanding of a nonnative language can be influenced by both cognitive load and listening environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Gao Tan Yan Street, Shaping Ba District, Chongqing, 400038, China tracyonly0603@sina.com, weiyuan175@sina.com.
authors.forename: Xiaoqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Gao Tan Yan Street, Shaping Ba District, Chongqing, 400038, China tracyonly0603@sina.com, weiyuan175@sina.com.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Department of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA jgalvin@mednet.ucla.edu, qfu@mednet.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Galvin
authors.affiliation: Department of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA jgalvin@mednet.ucla.edu, qfu@mednet.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Qian-Jie
authors.initials: QJ
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Xichang road no. 295, Kunming, Yunnan, 650032, China zhangy627@126.com.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010700:Phonetics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013065:Speech Intelligibility