Phonological experience modulates voice discrimination: Evidence from functional brain networks analysis

Hu, Xiucai; Wang, Xiangpeng; Gu, Yan; Luo, P.; Yin, Shouhang; Wang, Lijun; Fu, Chao; Qiao, Lihong; Du, Yi; Chen, Antao

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2017.06.001

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“…For example, some studies on 4.5-month-old infants have demonstrated that even if higher-level semantic representations are not established, some developed phonetic skills of native language have already induced the superiority of the native language ( May et al, 2011 ; Fecher et al, 2019 ). Other adult studies also demonstrated that even in the case of semantic inability to perceive, the difference in phonetic information between native and nonnative language represented in backward speech have also shown the superiority of the native language ( Fleming et al, 2014 ; Hu et al, 2017 ). Notably, backward speech has been shown to retain some phonetic information, especially for phonemes with time-symmetric properties such as fricatives and nasals ( Black, 1973 ; Ishida, 2021 ).…”

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“…In Experiment 1, we attempted to answer the question of whether phonetic information acts on voice identity processing in sighted and blind people. According to the studies of Fleming et al (2014) and Hu et al (2017) , we used backward speech to observe whether backward speech bring out LFEs in sighted and blind groups. If the results show that the blind group also exhibits LFE in backward speech, then phonetic information acts on voice identity processing in blind people, which is similar with that of sighted people.…”

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The mechanism of phonetic information in voice identity discrimination: a comparative study based on sighted and blind people

Ming,

Geng,

Zhao

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine whether phonetic information functions and how phonetic information affects voice identity processing in blind people.MethodTo address the first inquiry, 25 normal sighted participants and 30 blind participants discriminated voice identity, when listening forward speech and backward speech from their own native language and another unfamiliar language. To address the second inquiry, combining articulatory suppression paradigm, 26 normal sighted participants and 26 blind participants discriminated voice identity, when listening forward speech from their own native language and another unfamiliar language.ResultsIn Experiment 1, not only in the voice identity discrimination task with forward speech, but also in the discrimination task with backward speech, both the sighted and blind groups showed the superiority of the native language. This finding supports the view that backward speech still retains some phonetic information, and indicates that phonetic information can affect voice identity processing in sighted and blind people. In addition, only the superiority of the native language of sighted people was regulated by the speech manner, which is related to articulatory rehearsal. In Experiment 2, only the superiority of the native language of sighted people was regulated by articulatory suppression. This indicates that phonetic information may act in different ways on voice identity processing in sighted and blind people.ConclusionThe heightened dependence on voice source information in blind people appears not to undermine the function of phonetic information, but it appears to change the functional mechanism of phonetic information. These findings suggest that the present phonetic familiarity model needs to be improved with respect to the mechanism of phonetic information.

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The mechanism of phonetic information in voice identity discrimination: a comparative study based on sighted and blind people

Ming,

Geng,

Zhao

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…For survival, our ancestors would have preferred a more efficient way of learning and memory. After some practice, this operation of combining spoken language does not need to consume cognitive resources, and have become an automatic operation after psychological evolution (Hu et al, 2017; Yin, Sui, Chiu, Chen, & Egner, et al, 2019; Zhang, Ding, Li, Zhang, & Chen, 2013). Automatically combining spoken language with graphic codes may be an important reason for the historical absence of ideography.…”

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The stranding of the ideography: A nonnegligible role of the spoken language

Zhang,

Hu,

et al. 2023

Behav Brain Sci

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“…For survival, our ancestors would have preferred a more efficient way of learning and memory. After some practice, this operation of combining spoken language does not need to consume cognitive resources, and have become an automatic operation after psychological evolution (Hu et al, 2017;Yin, Sui, Chiu, Chen, & Egner, et al, 2019;Zhang, Ding, Li, Zhang, & Chen, 2013). Automatically combining spoken language with graphic codes may be an important reason for the historical absence of ideography.…”

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The puzzle of ideography

Morin

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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An ideography is a general-purpose code made of pictures that do not encode language, which can be used autonomously – not just as a mnemonic prop – to encode information on a broad range of topics. Why are viable ideographies so hard to find? I contend that self-sufficient graphic codes need to be narrowly specialized. Writing systems are only an apparent exception: at their core, they are notations of a spoken language. Even if they also encode non-linguistic information, they are useless to someone who lacks linguistic competence in the encoded language or a related one. The versatility of writing is thus vicarious: writing borrows it from spoken language. Why is it so difficult to build a fully generalist graphic code? The most widespread answer points to a learnability problem. We possess specialized cognitive resources for learning spoken language, but lack them for graphic codes. I argue in favor of a different account: what is difficult about graphic codes is not so much learning or teaching them as getting every user to learn and teach the same code. This standardization problem does not affect spoken or signed languages as much. Those are based on cheap and transient signals, allowing for easy online repairing of miscommunication, and require face-to-face interactions where the advantages of common ground are maximized. Graphic codes lack these advantages, which makes them smaller in size and more specialized.

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Phonological experience modulates voice discrimination: Evidence from functional brain networks analysis

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The mechanism of phonetic information in voice identity discrimination: a comparative study based on sighted and blind people

The mechanism of phonetic information in voice identity discrimination: a comparative study based on sighted and blind people

The stranding of the ideography: A nonnegligible role of the spoken language

The puzzle of ideography

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