Speech Perception

Diehl, Randy L.; Lotto, Andrew J.; Holt, Lori L.

doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.142028

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“…By contrast, several competing theories have suggested that a purely sensory analysis is sufficient for speech classification [24]. The discovery of mirror neurons [7] has provided the direct neural demonstration that the motor system becomes activated during perception.…”

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Listening to speech recruits specific tongue motor synergies as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation and tissue-Doppler ultrasound imaging

D’Ausilio

Maffongelli

Bartoli

et al. 2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The activation of listener's motor system during speech processing was first demonstrated by the enhancement of electromyographic tongue potentials as evoked by single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over tongue motor cortex. This technique is, however, technically challenging and enables only a rather coarse measurement of this motor mirroring. Here, we applied TMS to listeners' tongue motor area in association with ultrasound tissue Doppler imaging to describe fine-grained tongue kinematic synergies evoked by passive listening to speech. Subjects listened to syllables requiring different patterns of dorso-ventral and antero-posterior movements (/ki/, /ko/, /ti/, /to/). Results show that passive listening to speech sounds evokes a pattern of motor synergies mirroring those occurring during speech production. Moreover, mirror motor synergies were more evident in those subjects showing good performances in discriminating speech in noise demonstrating a role of the speech-related mirror system in feed-forward processing the speaker's ongoing motor plan.

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Listening to speech recruits specific tongue motor synergies as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation and tissue-Doppler ultrasound imaging

D’Ausilio

Maffongelli

Bartoli

et al. 2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…One line of research that could bear on this issue would consist of experiments using non-speech stimuli, which has been used to bear on the articulation/acoustic debate in other domains of phonetic theories-especially on the debate about the objects of speech perception (see Diehl et al 2004 for a review). One such non-speech experiment on sound symbolism was conducted by O'Boyle and Tarte (1980), who did not find a significant correlation between frequencies of pure tones and the figures that they represent.…”

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A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size

Shinohara¹,

Kawahara²

2010

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Although the sound-meaning relationship is often arbitrary (Saussure 1916), cases exist in which some sounds correspond to certain meanings. Such association between sounds and meanings is known as sound symbolism, and there has been a longstanding interest in the existence and the nature of sound symbolism. This paper reports an experiment on size-related sound symbolism, which shows that certain sound symbolisms hold robustly across languages. In particular, we investigate how the images of size (small or large) are affected by three phonetic factors: the height of vowels, the backness of vowels, and voicing in obstruents. Our rating experiment of four languages—Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean—shows that these three factors contribute to the images of size, with only a few exceptions. To explain the results, we offer phonetic grounding of these size-related sound symbolic patterns. We further raise the possibility that these phonetically grounded sound symbolic patterns are ‘embodied’ in the sense of Johnson (1987) and Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1999).

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“…Especially in the sub-second range, accurate duration encoding is instrumental for many complex behaviors such as precise motor control (i.e. in activities such as sport and dance), speech recognition and generation, and the processing of social cues (Ambadar, Cohn, & Reed, 2009;Buhusi & Meck, 2005;Diehl, Lotto, & Holt, 2004;Janata & Grafton, 2003;Mauk & Buonomano, 2004;Merchant & Georgopoulos, 2006;Schmidt, Ambadar, & Cohn, 2005). Recently, there has been a renewed interest in studying this temporal aspect of our behavior and the way in which our brain encodes this information.…”

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An investigation of the spatial selectivity of the duration after-effect

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a b s t r a c tAdaptation to the duration of a visual stimulus causes the perceived duration of a subsequently presented stimulus with a slightly different duration to be skewed away from the adapted duration. This pattern of repulsion following adaptation is similar to that observed for other visual properties, such as orientation, and is considered evidence for the involvement of duration-selective mechanisms in duration encoding. Here, we investigated whether the encoding of duration -by duration-selective mechanisms -occurs early on in the visual processing hierarchy. To this end, we investigated the spatial specificity of the duration after-effect in two experiments. We measured the duration after-effect at adapter-test distances ranging between 0 and 15°of visual angle and for within-and between-hemifield presentations. We replicated the duration after-effect: the test stimulus was perceived to have a longer duration following adaptation to a shorter duration, and a shorter duration following adaptation to a longer duration. Importantly, this duration after-effect occurred at all measured distances, with no evidence for a decrease in the magnitude of the after-effect at larger distances or across hemifields. This shows that adaptation to duration does not result from adaptation occurring early on in the visual processing hierarchy. Instead, it seems likely that duration information is a high-level stimulus property that is encoded later on in the visual processing hierarchy.

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Speech Perception

Cited by 341 publications

References 128 publications

Listening to speech recruits specific tongue motor synergies as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation and tissue-Doppler ultrasound imaging

Listening to speech recruits specific tongue motor synergies as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation and tissue-Doppler ultrasound imaging

A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size

An investigation of the spatial selectivity of the duration after-effect

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