ReviewThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2022
Don't force it! Gradient speech categorization calls for continuous categorization tasks.
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- Structural connectivity of auditory-linguistic brain networks predicts success in speech categorization and listening in noise.Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Phonetic stability predicts individual differences in acoustic-phonetic cue weighting.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Toolkit for acoustic-phonetic analysis of naturalistic speech data.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Short-term and long-term adaptive changes in prosodic comprehension.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2026Article
- Speech Categorization Consistency Predicts Language and Reading Abilities in Korean School-Age Children.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
- Phonetic variability leads to gradient speech perception.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2026Article
- Measuring naturalistic speech comprehension in real time.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Measuring age-related differences in phonetic gradiency with the visual analogue scale and eye tracking.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Changes in the Structure of Speech Categorization Across School Age Years: Children Become More Gradient and More Consistent.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Independence of spectral contrast effects across different frequency regions in speech perceptiona).The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026Article
- Consistency in phonetic categorization predicts successful speech-in-noise perception.JASA express letters · 2025Article
- The consistency of categorization-consistency in speech perception.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
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- Functional benefits of continuous vs. categorical listening strategies on the neural encoding and perception of noise-degraded speech.Brain research · 2024Article
- Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability.iScience · 2024Article
- Individual differences in the perception of phonetic category structure predict speech-in-noise performance.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- A Bayesian hierarchical model for the analysis of visual analogue scaling tasks.Statistical methods in medical research · 2024Article
- Hearing in categories aids speech streaming at the "cocktail party".bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Research on speech categorization and phoneme recognition has relied heavily on tasks in which participants listen to stimuli from a speech continuum and are asked to either classify each stimulus (identification) or discriminate between them (discrimination). Such tasks rest on assumptions about how perception maps onto discrete responses that have not been thoroughly investigated. Here, we identify critical challenges in the link between these tasks and theories of speech categorization. In particular, we show that patterns that have traditionally been linked to categorical perception could arise despite continuous underlying perception and that patterns that run counter to categorical perception could arise despite underlying categorical perception. We describe an alternative measure of speech perception using a visual analog scale that better differentiates between processes at play in speech categorization, and we review some recent findings that show how this task can be used to better inform our theories.
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