ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance2018
Spectral contrast effects produced by competing speech contexts.
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- Categorization of and Adaptation to Human Voice and Musical Instruments: A Passive Listening EEG Study.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Independence of spectral contrast effects across different frequency regions in speech perceptiona).The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026Article
- Contrastive adaptation effects along a voice-nonvoice continuum.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2025Article
- Musical training is not associated with spectral context effects in instrument sound categorization.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Auditory enhancement in younger and older listeners with normal and impaired hearinga).The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Encoding speech rate in challenging listening conditions: White noise and reverberation.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Adaptive auditory brightness perception.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Neural auditory contrast enhancement in humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Spectral contrast effects are modulated by selective attention in "cocktail party" settings.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2020Article
- Temporal contrast effects in human speech perception are immune to selective attention.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Spectral contrast effects and auditory enhancement under normal and impaired hearing.Acoustical science and technology · 2020Article
- Effects of spectral resolution on spectral contrast effects in cochlear-implant users.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2018Article
- Spectral Contrast Effects Reveal Different Acoustic Cues for Vowel Recognition in Cochlear-Implant Users.Ear and hearingArticle
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Abstract
The long-term spectrum of a preceding sentence can alter the perception of a following speech sound in a contrastive manner. This speech context effect contributes to our ability to extract reliable spectral characteristics of the surrounding acoustic environment and to compensate for the voice characteristics of different speakers or spectral colorations in different listening environments to maintain perceptual constancy. The extent to which such effects are mediated by low-level "automatic" processes, or require directed attention, remains unknown. This study investigated spectral context effects by measuring the effects of two competing sentences on the phoneme category boundary between /i/ and /ε/ in a following target word, while directing listeners' attention to one or the other context sentence. Spatial separation of the context sentences was achieved either by presenting them to different ears, or by presenting them to both ears but imposing an interaural time difference (ITD) between the ears. The results confirmed large context effects based on ear of presentation. Smaller effects were observed based on either ITD or attention. The results, combined with predictions from a two-stage model, suggest that ear-specific factors dominate speech context effects but that the effects can be modulated by higher-level features, such as perceived location, and by attention. (PsycINFO Database Record
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