Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

Perceptual difficulty with an unfamiliar accent can dissipate within short time scales (eg,
within minutes), reflecting rapid adaptation effects. At the same time, long-term familiarity …

Perceptual difficulties associated with unfamiliar talkers or accents are known to dissipate—
sometimes within minutes of exposure. How do the adaptive changes in perception evolve …

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Talkers vary in the phonetic realization of their vowels. One influential hypothesis holds that
listeners overcome this inter-talker variability through pre-linguistic auditory mechanisms …

We present an implementation of DIANA, a computational model of spoken word
recognition, to model responses collected in the Massive Auditory Lexical Decision (MALD) …