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Kraljic, Tanya; Samuel, Arthur G. – Cognition, 2011
Listeners rapidly adjust to talkers' pronunciations, accommodating those pronunciations into the relevant phonemic category to improve subsequent perception. Previous work has suggested that such learning is restricted to pronunciations that are representative of how the speaker talks (Kraljic, Samuel, & Brennan, 2008). If an ambiguous…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Learning Processes, Experiments, Speech Communication
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Bestelmeyer, Patricia E. G.; Rouger, Julien; DeBruine, Lisa M.; Belin, Pascal – Cognition, 2010
Previous research has demonstrated perceptual aftereffects for emotionally expressive faces, but the extent to which they can also be obtained in a different modality is unknown. In two experiments we show for the first time that adaptation to affective, non-linguistic vocalisations elicits significant auditory aftereffects. Adaptation to angry…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Experiments, Auditory Perception, Nonverbal Communication
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Warker, Jill A.; Xu, Ye; Dell, Gary S.; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2009
Adults rapidly learn phonotactic constraints from brief production or perception experience. Three experiments asked whether this learning is modality-specific, occurring separately in production and perception, or whether perception transfers to production. Participant pairs took turns repeating syllables in which particular consonants were…
Descriptors: Speech, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Adults
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Dahan, Delphine; Drucker, Sarah J.; Scarborough, Rebecca A. – Cognition, 2008
Past research has established that listeners can accommodate a wide range of talkers in understanding language. How this adjustment operates, however, is a matter of debate. Here, listeners were exposed to spoken words from a speaker of an American English dialect in which the vowel /ae/ is raised before /g/, but not before /k/. Results from two…
Descriptors: Dialects, Auditory Perception, Probability, North American English
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Chereau, Celine; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Dumay, Nicolas – Cognition, 2007
Three experiments examined the involvement of orthography in spoken word processing using a task--unimodal auditory priming with offset overlap--taken to reflect activation of prelexical representations. Two types of prime-target relationship were compared; both involved phonological overlap, but only one had a strong orthographic overlap (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Auditory Perception, Phonology, Experiments
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Jordan, Kerry E.; MacLean, Evan L.; Brannon, Elizabeth M. – Cognition, 2008
We report here that monkeys can actively match the number of sounds they hear to the number of shapes they see and present the first evidence that monkeys sum over sounds and sights. In Experiment 1, two monkeys were trained to choose a simultaneous array of 1-9 squares that numerically matched a sample sequence of shapes or sounds. Monkeys…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Critical Thinking, Animals, Animal Behavior
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Chapados, Catherine; Levitin, Daniel J. – Cognition, 2008
This experiment was conducted to investigate cross-modal interactions in the emotional experience of music listeners. Previous research showed that visual information present in a musical performance is rich in expressive content, and moderates the subjective emotional experience of a participant listening and/or observing musical stimuli [Vines,…
Descriptors: Musicians, Music, Emotional Response, Interaction
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Justus, Timothy; List, Alexandra – Cognition, 2005
Two priming experiments demonstrated exogenous attentional persistence to the fundamental auditory dimensions of frequency (Experiment 1) and time (Experiment 2). In a divided-attention task, participants responded to an independent dimension, the identification of three-tone sequence patterns, for both prime and probe stimuli. The stimuli were…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Experiments, Auditory Perception, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Soto-Faraco, Salvador; Navarra, Jordi; Alsius, Agnes – Cognition, 2004
The McGurk effect is usually presented as an example of fast, automatic, multisensory integration. We report a series of experiments designed to directly assess these claims. We used a syllabic version of the "speeded classification" paradigm, whereby response latencies to the first (target) syllable of spoken word-like stimuli are slowed down…
Descriptors: Classification, Auditory Perception, Visual Perception, Syllables