Individual differences in top-down restoration of interrupted speech: Links to linguistic and cognitive abilities
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Individual differences in top-down restoration of interrupted speech: links to linguistic and cognitive abilities.
Top-down restoration mechanisms can enhance perception of degraded speech. Even in normal hearing, however, a large variability has been observed in how effectively individuals can benefit from these mechanisms. To investigate if this variability is partially caused by individuals' linguistic and cognitive skills, normal-hearing participants of varying ages were assessed for receptive vocabular...
متن کاملIndividual differences and development of speech act production
This study examined the effects of individual difference (ID) factors on changing pragmatic abilities among L2 learners of English. Participants were 48 Japanese EFL students in an English-medium university in Japan. They completed a pragmatic speaking test (k=12) that assessed their ability to produce two speech acts: requests and opinions, in hi...
متن کاملInattentional Blindness and Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities
People sometimes fail to notice salient unexpected objects when their attention is otherwise occupied, a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness. To explore individual differences in inattentional blindness, we employed both static and dynamic tasks that either presented the unexpected object away from the focus of attention (spatial) or near the focus of attention (central). We hypothesize...
متن کاملIndividual Differences in Top-down and Bottom-up Prominence Perception
The perception of prosody, like other aspects of speech perception, relies on a combination of bottom-up and top-down information. In the context of prominence perception, the present study explored the interaction of these two types of cues, and individual variation in their effects on listeners. In a “naïve prosody transcription” task, 120 listeners gave prominence ratings to verbs and object...
متن کاملIndividual Differences in Cognitive, Musical, and Perceptual Abilities
sparked my interested in this research and who have remained a constant source of information throughout the study. I also wish to thank Shelly Bland for her hard work and assistance in gathering and entering the data for this study. I would like to thank the Attention and Working Memory Lab at Georgia Tech for the use of their cognitive tasks and for their assistance in contacting participants...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.4862879