The extreme acoustic variability of speech is well established, which makes the proficiency
of human speech perception all the more impressive. Speech perception, like perception in …

To understand human language—both spoken and signed—the listener or viewer has to
parse the continuous external signal into components. The question of what those …

There is wide variability in the acoustic patterns that are produced for a given linguistic
message, including variability that is conditioned on who is speaking. Listeners solve this …

A wide variety of research and clinical assessments involve presenting speech stimuli in the
presence of some kind of noise. Here, I selectively review two theoretical perspectives and …

Speech perception is challenged by indexical variability. A litany of studies on talker
normalization have demonstrated that hearing multiple talkers incurs processing costs (eg …

In everyday acoustic environments, reverberation alters the speech signal received at the
ears. Normal-hearing listeners are robust to these distortions, quickly recalibrating to …

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is vital for obtaining emotional intelligence and
understanding the contextual meaning of speech. Variations of consonant-vowel (CV) …

Spectral properties of earlier sounds (context) influence recognition of later sounds (target).
Acoustic variability in context stimuli can disrupt this process. When mean fundamental …

Understanding the effects of statistical regularities on speech processing is a central issue in
auditory neuroscience. To investigate the effects of distributional covariance on the neural …

The present study investigates the relationship between sentence intelligibility, band
importance, and patterns of spectro-temporal covariation between frequency bands. Sixteen …