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Idemaru, Kaori; Holt, Lori L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Speech processing requires sensitivity to long-term regularities of the native language yet demands listeners to flexibly adapt to perturbations that arise from talker idiosyncrasies such as nonnative accent. The present experiments investigate whether listeners exhibit "dimension-based statistical learning" of correlations between acoustic…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Acoustics, Statistics, Infants
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Lemaitre, Guillaume; Houix, Olivier; Misdariis, Nicolas; Susini, Patrick – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2010
The influence of listener's expertise and sound identification on the categorization of environmental sounds is reported in three studies. In Study 1, the causal uncertainty of 96 sounds was measured by counting the different causes described by 29 participants. In Study 2, 15 experts and 15 nonexperts classified a selection of 60 sounds and…
Descriptors: Identification, Classification, Acoustics, Auditory Perception