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Cornell, Sonia A.; Lahiri, Aditi; Eulitz, Carsten – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
The precise structure of speech sound representations is still a matter of debate. In the present neurobiological study, we compared predictions about differential sensitivity to speech contrasts between models that assume full specification of all phonological information in the mental lexicon with those assuming sparse representations (only…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Models, Speech Communication, Articulation (Speech)
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Davidson, Lisa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Previous research indicates that multiple levels of linguistic information play a role in the perception and discrimination of non-native phonemes. This study examines the interaction of phonetic, phonemic and phonological factors in the discrimination of non-native phonotactic contrasts. Listeners of Catalan, English, and Russian are presented…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Phonetics, Phonemes, Russian
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Jiang, Jintao; Bernstein, Lynne E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
When the auditory and visual components of spoken audiovisual nonsense syllables are mismatched, perceivers produce four different types of perceptual responses, auditory correct, visual correct, fusion (the so-called "McGurk effect"), and combination (i.e., two consonants are reported). Here, quantitative measures were developed to account for…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Acoustics, Syllables, Auditory Stimuli
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Huang, Ying; Huang, Qiang; Chen, Xun; Wu, Xihong; Li, Liang – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Perceptual integration of the sound directly emanating from the source with reflections needs both temporal storage and correlation computation of acoustic details. We examined whether the temporal storage is frequency dependent and associated with speech unmasking. In Experiment 1, a break in correlation (BIC) between interaurally correlated…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Intervals, Auditory Perception, Correlation
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Nygaard, Lynne C.; Queen, Jennifer S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The present study investigated the role of emotional tone of voice in the perception of spoken words. Listeners were presented with words that had either a happy, sad, or neutral meaning. Each word was spoken in a tone of voice (happy, sad, or neutral) that was congruent, incongruent, or neutral with respect to affective meaning, and naming…
Descriptors: Semantics, Psychological Patterns, Auditory Perception, Suprasegmentals
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Bowers, Jeffrey S.; Davis, Colin J.; Mattys, Sven L.; Damian, Markus F.; Hanley, Derek – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Three picture-word interference (PWI) experiments assessed the extent to which embedded subset words are activated during the identification of spoken superset words (e.g., "bone" in "trombone"). Participants named aloud pictures (e.g., "brain") while spoken distractors were presented. In the critical condition,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonemes, Identification, Auditory Perception
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Nittrouer, Susan; Lowenstein, Joanna H.; Packer, Robert R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Much of speech perception research has focused on brief spectro-temporal properties in the signal, but some studies have shown that adults can recover linguistic form when those properties are absent. In this experiment, 7-year-old English-speaking children demonstrated adultlike abilities to understand speech when only sine waves (SWs)…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Auditory Perception
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Lachs, Lorin; Pisoni, David B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004
In a cross-modal matching task, participants were asked to match visual and auditory displays of speech based on the identity of the speaker. The present investigation used this task with acoustically transformed speech to examine the properties of sound that can convey cross-modal information. Word recognition performance was also measured under…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Visual Perception, Auditory Perception, Measures (Individuals)
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Summerfield, Quentin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
The perception of syllable-initial stop consonants as voiced or voiceless was shown to depend on prevailing rate of articulation. Reducing articulatory rate of a precursor phrase causes a greater proportion of test consonants to be identified as voiced. Timing should be regarded as intrinsic to the acoustical specifications of phonetic events.…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli