A long‐standing question in cognitive science is how high‐level knowledge is integrated
with sensory input. For example, listeners can leverage lexical knowledge to interpret an …

Perceptual adaptation to a talker enables listeners to efficiently resolve the many-to-many
mapping between variable speech acoustics and abstract linguistic representations …

This study investigates how listeners associate acoustically different vowels with a single
linguistic vowel quality. Listeners were asked to identify vowel sounds as/æ/or/ʌ/and to …

Natural, conversational speech signals contain sources of symbolic and iconic information,
both of which are necessary for the full understanding of speech. But speech intelligibility …

In speech there is a many-to-many mapping between acoustic patterns and phonetic
categories. That is, similar acoustic properties can be assigned to different phonetic …

Contending with talker variability has been found to lead to processing costs but also
benefits by focusing learners on invariant properties of the signal, indicating that talker …

Sound is caused by physical events in the world. Do humans infer these causes when
recognizing sound sources? We tested whether the recognition of common environmental …

Successful speech perception requires accurate mapping of speech signals to linguistic
categories despite talker variation in signals. Although factors like intrinsic and context cues …

Understanding speech from different speakers is a sophisticated process, particularly
because the same acoustic parameters convey important information about both the speech …

Prior work in speech processing indicates that listening tasks with multiple speakers (as
opposed to a single speaker) result in slower and less accurate processing. Notably, the trial …