Perceptual Learning of Time-Compressed Speech: More than Rapid Adaptation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Banai, Karen ^a   Lavner, Yizhar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; VERBALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867299089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047099     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Wingfield A, (1975) Acoustic Redundancy and Perception of Time-Compressed Speech. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 18: 96-104.
2. Zhao Y, (1997) The effects of listeners' control of speech rate on second language comprehension. Applied Linguistics 18: 49-68.
3. Schneider B, Pichora-Fuller K, (2001) Age-related changes in temporal processing: Implications for speech perception. Seminars in Hearing 22: 227-240.
4. Pallier C, Sebastian-Galles N, Dupoux E, Christophe A, Mehler J, (1998) Perceptual adjustment to time-compressed speech: a cross-linguistic study. Mem Cognit 26: 844-851.
5. Peelle JE, Wingfield A, (2005) Dissociations in perceptual learning revealed by adult age differences in adaptation to time-compressed speech. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31: 1315-1330.
6. Adank P, Janse E, (2009) Perceptual learning of time-compressed and natural fast speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126: 2649-2659.
7. Dupoux E, Green K, (1997) Perceptual adjustment to highly compressed speech: Effects of talker and rate changes. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance 23: 914-927.
8. Golomb JD, Peelle JE, Wingfield A, (2007) Effects of stimulus variability and adult aging on adaptation to time-compressed speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121: 1701-1708.
9. Sebastian-Galles N, Dupoux E, Costa A, Mehler J, (2000) Adaptation to time-compressed speech: Phonological determinants. Perception & Psychophysics 62: 834-842.
10. Conrad L, (1989) The effects of time-compressed speech on native and EFL listening comprehension. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 11: 1-16.
11. Song JH, Skoe E, Banai K, Kraus N (2011) Training to Improve Hearing Speech in Noise: Biological Mechanisms. Cereb Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr196.
12. Lively SE, Logan JS, Pisoni DB, (1993) Training Japanese listeners to identify English/r/and/l/. II: The role of phonetic environment and talker variability in learning new perceptual categories. J Acoust Soc Am 94: 1242-1255.
13. Logan JS, Lively SE, Pisoni DB, (1991) Training Japanese listeners to identify English/r/and/l/: a first report. J Acoust Soc Am 89: 874-886.
14. Tremblay K, Kraus N, Carrell TD, McGee T, (1997) Central auditory system plasticity: generalization to novel stimuli following listening training. J Acoust Soc Am 102: 3762-3773.
15. Moore DR, Rosenberg JF, Coleman JS, (2005) Discrimination training of phonemic contrasts enhances phonological processing in mainstream school children. Brain Lang 94: 72-85.
16. Altmann TM, Young D (1993) Factors affecting adaptation to time-compressed speech. EUROSPEECH '93. Berlin. 333-336.
17. Ahissar M, Nahum M, Nelken I, Hochstein S, (2009) Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364: 285-299.
18. Hochstein S, Ahissar M, (2002) View from the top: hierarchies and reverse hierarchies in the visual system. Neuron 36: 791-804.
19. Nahum M, Nelken I, Ahissar M, (2008) Low-level information and high-level perception: the case of speech in noise. PLoS Biol 6: e126.
20. Ahissar M, Hochstein S, (1997) Task difficulty and the specificity of perceptual learning. Nature 387: 401-406.
21. Nahum M, Nelken I, Ahissar M, (2010) Stimulus uncertainty and perceptual learning: similar principles govern auditory and visual learning. Vision Res 50: 391-401.
22. Banai K, Amitay S, (2012) Stimulus uncertainty in auditory perceptual learning. Vision Res 61: 83-88.
23. Wright BA, Buonomano DV, Mahncke HW, Merzenich MM, (1997) Learning and generalization of auditory temporal-interval discrimination in humans. J Neurosci 17: 3956-3963.
24. Strange W, Dittmann S, (1984) Effects of Discrimination-Training on the Perception of (R-L) by Japanese Adults Learning-English. Perception & Psychophysics 36: 131-145.
25. Burk MH, Humes LE, (2008) Effects of long-term training on aided speech-recognition performance in noise in older adults. J Speech Lang Hear Res 51: 759-771.
26. Leek MR, (2001) Adaptive procedures in psychophysical research. Percept Psychophys 63: 1279-1292.
27. Levitt H (1971) Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics. J Acoust Soc Am 49: Suppl 2: 467+.
28. Verhelst W, Roelands M (1993) An overlap-add technique based on waveform similarity (WSOLA) for high quality time-scale modification of speech. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Minneapolis, MN, USA. 554-557.
29. Verhelst W, (2000) Overlap-add methods for time-scaling of speech. Speech Communication 30: 207-221.
30. Moulines E, Charpentier F, (1990) Pitch-Synchronous Wave-Form Processing Techniques for Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Diphones. Speech Communication 9: 453-467.
31. Prior A, Bentin S, (2006) Differential integration efforts of mandatory and optional sentence constituents. Psychophysiology 43: 440-449.
32. Demany L, Semal C, (2002) Learning to perceive pitch differences. J Acoust Soc Am 111: 1377-1388.
33. Ortiz JA, Wright BA, (2009) Contributions of procedure and stimulus learning to early, rapid perceptual improvements. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 35: 188-194.
34. Ortiz JA, Wright BA, (2010) Differential rates of consolidation of conceptual and stimulus learning following training on an auditory skill. Exp Brain Res 201: 441-451.
35. Karni A, Sagi D, (1993) The time course of learning a visual skill. Nature 365: 250-252.
36. Humes LE, Burk MH, Strauser LE, Kinney DL, (2009) Development and Efficacy of a Frequent-Word Auditory Training Protocol for Older Adults with Impaired Hearing. Ear and Hearing 30: 613-627.
37. Bradlow AR, Bent T, (2008) Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech. Cognition 106: 707-729.
38. Clopper CG, Pisoni DB, (2004) Some acoustic cues for the perceptual categorization of American English regional dialects. Journal of Phonetics 32: 111-140.
39. Adank P, Devlin JT, (2010) On-line plasticity in spoken sentence comprehension: Adapting to time-compressed speech. Neuroimage 49: 1124-1132.
40. Rosen S, (1992) Temporal Information in Speech- Acoustic, Auditory and Linguistic Aspects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 336: 367-373.
41. Bent T, Loebach JL, Phillips L, Pisoni DB, (2011) Perceptual Adaptation to Sinewave-Vocoded Speech Across Languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance 37: 1607-1616.
42. Davis MH, Johnsrude IS, Hervais-Adelman A, Taylor K, McGettigan C, (2005) Lexical information drives; Perceptual learning of distorted speech: Evidence from the comprehension of noise-vocoded sentences. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General 134: 222-241.
43. Shannon RV, Zeng FG, Kamath V, Wygonski J, Ekelid M, (1995) Speech Recognition with Primarily Temporal Cues. Science 270: 303-304.
44. Poeppel D, Idsardi WJ, van Wassenhove V, (2008) Speech perception at the interface of neurobiology and linguistics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 363: 1071-1086.
45. Nygaard LC, Pisoni DB, (1998) Talker-specific learning in speech perception. Percept Psychophys 60: 355-376.
46. Loebach JL, Bent T, Pisoni DB, (2008) Multiple routes to the perceptual learning of speech. J Acoust Soc Am 124: 552-561.
47. Mayo LH, Florentine M, Buus S, (1997) Age of second-language acquisition and perception of speech in noise. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research 40: 686-693.
48. Rogers CL, Lister JJ, Febo DM, Besing JM, Abrams HB, (2006) Effects of bilingualism, noise, and reverberation on speech perception by listeners with normal hearing. Applied Psycholinguistics 27: 465-485.