The perceptual learning of time-compressed speech: A comparison of training protocols with different levels of difficulty.

ABSTRACT: Speech perception can improve substantially with practice (perceptual learning) even in adults. Here we compared the effects of four training protocols that differed in whether and how task difficulty was changed during a training session, in terms of the gains attained and the ability to apply (transfer) these gains to previously un-encountered items (tokens) and to different talkers. Participants trained in judging the semantic plausibility of sentences presented as time-compressed speech and were tested on their ability to reproduce, in writing, the target sentences; trail-by-trial feedback was afforded in all training conditions. In two conditions task difficulty (low or high compression) was kept constant throughout the training session, whereas in the other two conditions task diffic

SUBMITTER: Gabay Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5436740 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature