Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic
categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …

Speech produced by different people varies acoustically because of individual differences in
vocal tract physiology. This acoustic variation in the “same” words of language presents a …

Face masks are an important tool for preventing the spread of COVID-19. However, it is
unclear how different types of masks affect speech recognition in different levels of …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Studies evaluating phonological contrast learning typically investigate either the
predictiveness of specific pretraining aptitude measures or the efficacy of different …

In most of the world, people have regular exposure to multiple accents. Therefore, learning
to quickly process accented speech is a prerequisite to successful communication. In this …

Listening effort is increasingly recognized as a factor in communication, particularly for and
with nonnative speakers, for the elderly, for individuals with hearing impairment and/or for …

Spontaneous phonetic imitation—the phenomenon where interacting talkers come to be
more similar-sounding—may be an important mechanism in dialect convergence and …

Spoken language is characterized by an enormous amount of variability in how linguistic
segments are realized. In order to investigate how speech perceptual processes …

Voice-specificity effects in recognition memory were investigated using both behavioral data
and pupillometry. Volunteers initially heard spoken words and nonwords in two voices; they …