Cents and shenshibility: The role of reward in talker-specific phonetic recalibration.

ABSTRACT: To what degree might speech perception be affected by factors external to the speech signal? Here, we consider whether listeners consider the value of individual talkers (e.g., a person that is important to the listener versus a passing stranger) when learning the idiosyncrasies of their speech, perhaps by directing their attention to the more "valuable" talker. In general, talker-specific phonetic recalibration has proven to be remarkably robust, leaving open how permeable it is to domain-general influences like attention and reward. The current study asked whether the magnitude of the talker-specific learning effect was modulated by an external reward intended to bias listeners to prioritize one talker over the other. Using an established paradigm, participants learned idiosyncratic pron

SUBMITTER: Mechtenberg H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12864238 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature