Listeners are better at predicting speakers similar to themselves.

ABSTRACT: Although it takes several hundred milliseconds to prepare a spoken contribution, gaps between turns in conversation tend to be much shorter. To produce these short gaps, it appears that interlocutors predict the end of their partner's turn. The theory of prediction-by-simulation proposes that individuals use their own motor system to model a partner's upcoming actions by referring to prior production experience. In this study we investigate the role of motor experience for both predicting a turn-end and producing a spoken response by manipulating the similarity of heard speech to participants' own production style. We hypothesised that they would be better at predicting, and initiating responses to, speech produced in the style they speak themselves. Participants recorded a series of quest

SUBMITTER: Hadley LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7408002 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature