Search for dissertations about: "Nathalie Phillips"
Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Nathalie Phillips.
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1. Representing sounds and spellings : Phonological decline and compensatory working memory in acquired hearing impairment
Abstract : This thesis examined phonological processing in adults with postlingually acquired moderate-to-severe hearing impairment (HI) and whether explicit working memory processing of phonology and individual working memory capacity (WMC) can compensate for degraded phonological representations in this group (papers I-III). A second aim was to provide reference data for a test of WMC, the reading span test, and to examine the relation between reading span test performance and speech recognition in noise in a larger sample of 50-89 year olds with HI (paper IV). READ MORE