Perception and immediate recall of normal and “compressed” auditory sequences

Aaronson, Doris; Markowitz, Nancy; Shapiro, Hollis

doi:10.3758/bf03208691

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“…The earlier studies, conducted primarily with young listeners, indicate that temporal order recognition can be difficult, particularly for tasks that require the labeling of individual sequence items comprised of less familiar nonspeech sounds. However, one common finding from these studies was the observation indicating that the introduction of silent intervals between successive items in sequential stimulus patterns acted to enhance temporal order recognition ͑e.g., Aaronson et al, 1971;Peters and Wood, 1973;Warren, 1974͒. The improved recognition performance associated with the presence of interitem silent intervals was generally attributed to the increased availability of processing time that listeners used to encode individual sequence items for later recall.…”

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Effects of age and sequence presentation rate on temporal order recognition

Fitzgibbons

Gordon‐Salant

Friedman

2006

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The experiments examined the ability of younger and older listeners to identify the temporal order of sounds presented in tonal sequences. The stimuli were three-tone sequences that spanned two-octave frequency range, and listeners identified random permutations of tone order using labels of relative pitch. Some of the sequences featured uniform timing characteristics, and the sequence duty cycle was varied across conditions to examine the relative influence of tonal durations and intertone interval on recognition performance across a range of sequence presentation rates. Other stimulus sequences featured nonuniform timing with unequal tone durations and intertone intervals. The listeners were groups of younger and older persons with or without hearing loss. Results indicated that temporal order recognition was influenced primarily by sequence presentation rate, independent of tonal duration, tonal interval spacing, or sequence timing characteristics. The performance of older listeners was poorer than younger listeners, but the age-related recognition differences were independent of sequence presentation rate. There were no consistent effects of hearing loss on temporal ordering performance.

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Effects of age and sequence presentation rate on temporal order recognition

Fitzgibbons

Gordon‐Salant

Friedman

2006

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…One method has been the addition of a certain amount of white noise to the audio stimulus (Gat & Keith, 1978;Gradman & Spolsky, 1975); another has been complicating the syntactic form of the input (Cook, 1975(Cook, , 1977Forster, 1970). A third method reduces part of the signal itself: A study by Henrichsen (1984) compared the effects of contraction and reduction in oral English on native and normative listening comprehension, and a final group of studies reduces the presentation time of the signal (Aaronson, Markowitz, & Shapiro, 1971;Forster, 1970;Wingfield & Nolan, 1980). Taken as a whole, all of these studies have stressed the two-way interaction of the comprehension process.…”

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The Effects of Time-Compressed Speech on Native and Efl Listening Comprehension

Conrad

1989

Stud Sec Lang Acq

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The experiment reported here used time-compressed speech to handicap the process of listening comprehension in an attempt to observe aural processing strategy differences among groups of native English speakers and high- and medium-level skill groups learning the language. The participants were asked to immediately recall 5 time-compressed recordings each of 16 simple English sentences; the 5 replays represented decreasing rates of time-compression ranging from 40% to 90% normal playing time. Group performances were compared for the 5 rates of compression with regard to overall sentence recall as well as to the recall of specific parts of speech. Results showed both quantitative and qualitative differences among the three test groups. Overall recall of the time-compressed sentences decreased with decreasing proficiency in the language. Furthermore, whereas native listeners demonstrated a strategy of concentrating on key content words in the stimulus, both learner groups tended to recall more words they had heard in initial or final sentence position.

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“…This would be expected in view of the argument that the debilitating effects of compressed speech are due as much to depriving listeners of ordinarily available processing time, as to degradation of the speech signal itself (Aaronson, Markowitz, & Shapiro, 1971;Overmann, 1971).…”

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Spontaneous segmentation in normal and in time-compressed speech

Wingfield

Nolan

1980

Perception & Psychophysics

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An experiment is reported in which subjects heard recorded speech passages at normal speaking rates and at various degrees of time compression, with instructions to interrupt the speech input for intermediate report by stopping the tape at points of their choosing. An analysis of subjects' points of interruption as a function of speech rate eliminated temporal duration and number of words per segment as primary determiners of segmentation strategy. Formal linguistic constituents at all speech rates served as a good, but not perfect, predictor of segmentation boundaries. The results are interpreted in the light of on-line interactive and augmented transition network (ATN) models of speech perception.

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Perception and immediate recall of normal and “compressed” auditory sequences

Cited by 32 publications

References 33 publications

Effects of age and sequence presentation rate on temporal order recognition

Effects of age and sequence presentation rate on temporal order recognition

The Effects of Time-Compressed Speech on Native and Efl Listening Comprehension

Spontaneous segmentation in normal and in time-compressed speech

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