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ArticleBrain and language2022

Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech.

Christopher C Heffner, Pamela Fuhrmeister, Sahil Luthra, Hannah Mechtenberg, David Saltzman, Emily B Myers

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Christopher C HeffnerDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States; Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States; Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, United States. Electronic address: ccheffne@buffalo.edu.
Pamela FuhrmeisterDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States; Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, 11476 Potsdam, Germany.
Sahil LuthraInstitute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States.
Hannah MechtenbergDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States.
David SaltzmanDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States.
Emily B MyersDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States; Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States.

Funding

The Role of Frontal and Temporal Brain Areas in the Perception of Phonetic Category StructureR01DC013064 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI MYERS, EMILY B · 2014 to 2025
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study of perceptual flexibility in speech depends on a variety of tasks that feature a large degree of variability between participants. Of critical interest is whether measures are consistent within an individual or across stimulus contexts. This is particularly key for individual difference designs that aredeployed to examine the neural basis or clinical consequences of perceptual flexibility. In the present set of experiments, we assess the split-half reliability and construct validity of five measures of perceptual flexibility: three of learning in a native language context (e.g., understanding someone with a foreign accent) and two of learning in a non-native context (e.g., learning to categorize non-native speech sounds). We find that most of these tasks show an appreciable level of split-half reliability, although construct validity was sometimes weak. This provides good evidence for reliability for these tasks, while highlighting possible upper limits on expected effect sizes involving each measure.

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SpeechSpeech PerceptionHumansLanguagePhoneticsReproducibility of ResultsConstruct validityIndividual differencesPhonetic adaptationPhonetic identificationPhonetic learningReliabilitySpeech perception

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PMID35026449
PMCPMC10350246

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