Multiple talker processing in autistic adult listeners.

ABSTRACT: Accommodating talker variability is a complex and multi-layered cognitive process. It involves shifting attention to the vocal characteristics of the talker as well as the linguistic content of their speech. Due to an interdependence between voice and phonological processing, multi-talker environments typically incur additional processing costs compared to single-talker environments. A failure or inability to efficiently distribute attention over multiple acoustic cues in the speech signal may have detrimental language learning consequences. Yet, no studies have examined effects of multi-talker processing in populations with atypical perceptual, social and language processing for communication, including autistic people. Employing a classic word-monitoring task, we investigated effects of

SUBMITTER: Alispahic S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11208580 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature