The myth of categorical perception

B McMurray - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Categorical perception (CP) is likely the single finding from speech perception with the
biggest impact on cognitive science. However, within speech perception, it is widely known …

Spoken Word Recognition: A Focus on Plasticity

EC Kapnoula, M Jevtović… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Psycholinguists define spoken word recognition (SWR) as, roughly, the processes
intervening between speech perception and sentence processing, whereby a sequence of …

A Bayesian hierarchical model for the analysis of visual analogue scaling tasks

EAQIDGQ Sorensen, J Oleson… - Statistical methods in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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12pt]?> In psychophysics and psychometrics, an integral method to the discipline involves …

Don't force it! Gradient speech categorization calls for continuous categorization tasks

KS Apfelbaum, E Kutlu, B McMurray… - The Journal of the …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Research on speech categorization and phoneme recognition has relied heavily on tasks in
which participants listen to stimuli from a speech continuum and are asked to either classify …

Acoustic and language-specific sources for phonemic abstraction from speech

A Mai, S Riès, S Ben-Haim, JJ Shih… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Spoken language comprehension requires abstraction of linguistic information from speech,
but the interaction between auditory and linguistic processing of speech remains poorly …

Moving away from deficiency models: Gradiency in bilingual speech categorization

E Kutlu, S Chiu, B McMurray - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
For much of its history, categorical perception was treated as a foundational theory of
speech perception, which suggested that quasi-discrete categorization was a goal of speech …

[HTML][HTML] Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye …

EC Kapnoula, B McMurray - Brain and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
Listeners generally categorize speech sounds in a gradient manner. However, recent work,
using a visual analogue scaling (VAS) task, suggests that some listeners show more …

The pictures who shall not be named: Empirical support for benefits of preview in the Visual World Paradigm

KS Apfelbaum, J Klein-Packard, B McMurray - Journal of memory and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A common critique of the Visual World Paradigm (VWP) in psycholinguistic studies is that
what is designed as a measure of language processes is meaningfully altered by the visual …

Understanding language processing in variable populations on their own terms: Towards a functionalist psycholinguistics of individual differences, development, and …

B McMurray, KS Baxelbaum, S Colby… - Applied …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Classic psycholinguistics seeks universal language mechanisms for all people,
emphasizing the “modal” listener: hearing, neurotypical, monolingual, and young adults …

What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: Incorrect syntactic representations or fallible memory processes?

Y Huang, F Ferreira - Journal of Memory and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
A key question in research on sentence processing concerns how sentences that have been
misanalyzed are reinterpreted, and to what extent the parser's attempts at revision are …