Speaker normalization in speech perception

K Johnson, MJ Sjerps - The handbook of speech perception, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The effect of overnight consolidation in the perceptual learning of non-native tonal contrasts

Z Qin, C Zhang - PloS one, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Sleep-mediated overnight consolidation has been found to facilitate perceptual learning by
promoting learners' generalization across talkers in their perception of novel segmental …

Functionally integrated neural processing of linguistic and talker information: An event-related fMRI and ERP study

C Zhang, KR Pugh, WE Mencl, PJ Molfese, SJ Frost… - NeuroImage, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Speech signals contain information of both linguistic content and a talker's voice.
Conventionally, linguistic and talker processing are thought to be mediated by distinct neural …

Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry

SJ Lim, YD Carter, JM Njoroge… - Brain and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Speech is processed less efficiently from discontinuous, mixed talkers than one consistent
talker, but little is known about the neural mechanisms for processing talker variability. Here …

Lexical tone is perceived relative to locally surrounding context, vowel quality to preceding context.

MJ Sjerps, C Zhang, G Peng - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2018‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Important speech cues such as lexical tone and vowel quality are perceptually contrasted to
the distribution of those same cues in surrounding contexts. However, it is unclear whether …

Attention, task demands, and multitalker processing costs in speech perception.

D Saltzman, S Luthra, EB Myers… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Determining how human listeners achieve phonetic constancy despite a variable map**
between the acoustics of speech and phonemic categories is the longest standing challenge …

Neural bases of congenital amusia in tonal language speakers

C Zhang, G Peng, J Shao, WSY Wang - Neuropsychologia, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Congenital amusia is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder of fine-grained pitch
processing. In this fMRI study, we examined the neural bases of congenial amusia in …