Assessing Perception and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults

Cochlear Implant Evaluations of Spanish-Speaking Adults: Linguistic Comparison of Two Spanish-Sentence Perception Tests

“…In terms of number of words per sentence, having a larger number of words to remember would involve activating higher order processes like working memory, language comprehension, and attention (Biever et al, 2021;Cowan, 2010). In addition, having a more complex grammatical structure reduces the patient's possibility to predict or fill in for missing information using the sentence's semantic context and cues (Biever et al, 2021;Shi, 2018). Having a good score on the S-AzBio would mean that the listener is able to perceive the words correctly but also process them, store them, and repeat them.…”