ArticleBrain and language2021
Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry.
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- Challenges in Accommodating Talker Variability in Lexical Tone Perception Among Autistic Adults: Implications for Talker Adaptation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- An Electrophysiological Study on the Neural Responses of Speaker Discrimination.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Listeners do not tune in to more rewarding voices.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Acoustic Salience Drives Pupillary Dynamics in an Interrupted, Reverberant Task.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Sequence effects during speech perception reveal multi-accent processing costs.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Semantics and syntax effects on event-related fields during speech comprehension: a MEG study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Distinct talkers combat catastrophic failures of spatial attention due to interruption.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Multiple talker processing in autistic adult listeners.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Why are listeners hindered by talker variability?Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Review
- Sensory modality and information domain contribute jointly to dual-task interference between working memory and perceptual processing.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Time Scales and Moments of Listening Effort Revealed in Pupillometry.Seminars in hearing · 2023Review
- Defining attention from an auditory perspective.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2023Article
- Implicit and explicit learning in talker identification.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Cat-astrophic effects of sudden interruptions on spatial auditory attention.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- Distinct mechanisms for talker adaptation operate in parallel on different timescales.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Seeing a Talker's Mouth Reduces the Effort of Perceiving Speech and Repairing Perceptual Mistakes for Listeners With Cochlear Implants.Ear and hearingArticle
- Effects of Task-Irrelevant Talker Identity and Continuity on Spatial Selective Attention Under Interruption.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Speech is processed less efficiently from discontinuous, mixed talkers than one consistent talker, but little is known about the neural mechanisms for processing talker variability. Here, we measured psychophysiological responses to talker variability using electroencephalography (EEG) and pupillometry while listeners performed a delayed recall of digit span task. Listeners heard and recalled seven-digit sequences with both talker (single- vs. mixed-talker digits) and temporal (0- vs. 500-ms inter-digit intervals) discontinuities. Talker discontinuity reduced serial recall accuracy. Both talker and temporal discontinuities elicited P3a-like neural evoked response, while rapid processing of mixed-talkers' speech led to increased phasic pupil dilation. Furthermore, mixed-talkers' speech produced less alpha oscillatory power during working memory maintenance, but not during speech encoding. Overall, these results are consistent with an auditory attention and streaming framework in which talker discontinuity leads to involuntary, stimulus-driven attentional reorientation to novel speech sources, resulting in the processing interference classically associated with talker variability.
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