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Christiner, Markus; Rüdegger, Stefanie; Reiterer, Susanne Maria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
Musical expertise and working memory (WM) have been isolated as being the most important predictors of phonetic aptitude -- meaning the ability to imitate unfamiliar speech material. Although the link between language functions and musical expertise has been subject to many investigations, specific languages and their individual link to musical…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Individual Differences, Music, Expertise
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Hilkhuysen, Gaston L. M.; Gaubitch, Nikolay; Huckvale, Mark – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors investigated how well experts can adjust the settings of a commercial noise-reduction system to optimize the intelligibility for naive normal-hearing listeners. Method: In Experiment 1, 5 experts adjusted parameters for a noise-reduction system while aiming to optimize intelligibility. The stimuli consisted of…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Listening Comprehension, Expertise, Auditory Stimuli
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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