Working memory supports rapid talker and accent accommodation: An individual differences investigation.

ABSTRACT: Under multitalker listening conditions, listeners appear to rapidly accommodate variability in speaker productions. However, evidence indicates that this trial-to-trial accommodation incurs a processing cost and is amplified by accent differences among talkers. The present study investigated how individual listener differences in working memory capacity and attentional control may predict the degree of processing costs (as measured by response time and accuracy) incurred by trial-to-trial switches in English talkers of first language (L1) American accent and second language (L2) Mandarin Chinese accent. Listeners completed a dual-task experiment with a primary listening task and secondary non-linguistic task as well as measures of working memory capacity (the Word Auditory Recognition and

SUBMITTER: McLaughlin DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12913305 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature