Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic
categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …

The present study investigated the effects of inhibition, vocabulary knowledge, and working
memory on perceptual adaptation to accented speech. One hundred young, normal-hearing …

One view of speech perception is that acoustic signals are transformed into representations
for pattern matching to determine linguistic structure. This process can be taken as a …

Past research has established that listeners can accommodate a wide range of talkers in
understanding language. How this adjustment operates, however, is a matter of debate …

The mapping from phonetic categories to acoustic cue values is highly flexible, and adapts
rapidly in response to exposure. There is currently, however, no theoretical framework which …

One of the central challenges in speech perception is the lack of invariance: talkers differ in
how they map words onto the speech signal. Previous work has shown that one mechanism …

Past research has revealed that native listeners use top-down information to adjust the
mapping from speech sounds to phonetic categories. Such phonetic adjustments help …

Perceptual representations of phonemes are flexible and adapt rapidly to accommodate
idiosyncratic articulation in the speech of a particular talker. This letter addresses whether …

A fundamental problem in speech perception is how (or whether) listeners accommodate
variability in the way talkers produce speech. One view of the way listeners cope with this …

In noisy settings or when listening to an unfamiliar talker or accent, it can be difficult to
understand spoken language. This difficulty typically results in reductions in speech …