Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

Revealing the relationships between perceptual representations in the brain and
mechanisms of adult perceptual learning is of great importance, potentially leading to …

In this article the author proposes an episodic theory of spoken word representation,
perception, and production. By most theories, idiosyncratic aspects of speech (voice details …

Native speakers of Japanese learning English generally have difficulty differentiating the
phonemes/r/and/l/, even after years of experience with English. Previous research that …

Two experiments were carried out to extend Logan et al.'s recent study [JS Logan, SE Lively,
and DB Pisoni, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 874–886 (1991)] on training Japanese listeners to …

Most theories of spoken word identification assume that variable speech signals are
matched to canonical representations in memory. To achieve this, idiosyncratic voice details …

To determine how familiarity with a talker's voice affects perception of spoken words, we
trained two groups of subjects to recognize a set of voices over a 9-day period One group …

The effects of perceptual learning of talker identity on the recognition of spoken words and
sentences were investigated in three experiments. In each experiment, listeners were …

Speech-language pathology relies on auditory-perceptual judgment as a central tool for
classifying and measuring a variety of disorders of communication. Over the history of the …

Studies evaluating phonological contrast learning typically investigate either the
predictiveness of specific pretraining aptitude measures or the efficacy of different …