2021
DOI: 10.1044/2021_jslhr-20-00695
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Effects of Cognitive Load on the Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones

Abstract: Purpose This study investigated the effect of cognitive load (CL) on the categorical perception (CP) of Mandarin lexical tones to discuss the application of the generalized pulse-skipping hypothesis. This hypothesis assumes that listeners might miss/skip temporal pulses and lose essential speech information due to CL, which consequently affects both the temporal and spectral dimensions of speech perception. Should CL decrease listeners' pitch sensitivity and impair the distinction of tone categorie… Show more

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“…For phonemic discrimination (e.g., the AX pattern), listeners need to memorize the first sound until the release of the second sound and then compare the two sounds. Thus, phonemic discrimination places a higher demand on working memory than identification does, and the process of phonemic discrimination is more complex and requires greater cognitive resources (Feng et al, 2021 ). Both within‐category and between‐category discrimination require sensory memory and working memory, and between‐category discrimination additionally recruits long‐term phonological memory (Xu et al, 2006 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For phonemic discrimination (e.g., the AX pattern), listeners need to memorize the first sound until the release of the second sound and then compare the two sounds. Thus, phonemic discrimination places a higher demand on working memory than identification does, and the process of phonemic discrimination is more complex and requires greater cognitive resources (Feng et al, 2021 ). Both within‐category and between‐category discrimination require sensory memory and working memory, and between‐category discrimination additionally recruits long‐term phonological memory (Xu et al, 2006 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To judge correctly, one prerequisite is to store the first sound and compare it with the second one (Mitterer & Mattys, 2017). Feng et al (2021) found that cognitive load negatively affected pitch sensitivity and discrimination performance by interfering with working memory in non-autistic individuals. Future studies examining working memory are warranted to uncover the factors in the CP of autistic children.…”
Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The above-mentioned studies mostly focused on English. Existing works on the aging effects on phoneme perception in Mandarin mainly focus on the lexical tones and vowels (Yang et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2017a,b;Feng et al, 2019Feng et al, , 2021Liu et al, 2021), while consonant recognition was understudied. There was only one study that examined the perception of 23 Mandarin consonants [including approximants/lateral approximants (A/LA)] in older adults (Zhao et al, 2005).…”
Section: Consonant Perception In Older Adultsmentioning
confidence: 99%