Formant-invariant voice and pitch representations are pre-attentively formed from constantly varying speech and non-speech stimuli.

ABSTRACT: The present study investigated whether listeners can form abstract voice representations while ignoring constantly changing phonological information and if they can use the resulting information to facilitate voice change detection. Further, the study aimed at understanding whether the use of abstraction is restricted to the speech domain or can be deployed also in non-speech contexts. We ran an electroencephalogram (EEG) experiment including one passive and one active oddball task, each featuring a speech and a rotated speech condition. In the speech condition, participants heard constantly changing vowels uttered by a male speaker (standard stimuli) which were infrequently replaced by vowels uttered by a female speaker with higher pitch (deviant stimuli). In the rotated speech condition,

SUBMITTER: Di Dona G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545905 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature