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Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Phonetic perception but not perception of speaker gender is impaired in chronic tinnitus. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2021; 260:397-422. [PMID: 33637229 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2020.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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While tinnitus is known to compromise the perception of speech, it is unclear if the same holds for extralinguistic speaker information. Furthermore, research with simple tone stimuli showed that unilateral tinnitus binds spatial attention, thereby impeding the detection of auditory changes in the non-affected ear. Using dichotic listening tasks, we tested left-ear tinnitus patients and control patients for their ability to ignore speech and speaker information in the task-irrelevant ear. To this end they heard vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) syllables simultaneously spoken by gender-ambiguous voices in one ear and male or female voices in the contralateral ear. They selectively attended to speech (Exp. 1) or speaker (Exp. 2) information in a designated target ear, by classifying either the consonant (/b/ or /g/) in VCV syllables or voice gender (male or female) while ignoring distractor voices in the other ear. While performance was comparable across groups in the gender task, tinnitus patients responded slower than controls in the consonant task, with no effect of target ear. This suggests that tinnitus hampers phonetic perception in speech, while preserving the processing of extralinguistic speaker information. These findings support the growing evidence for speech perception impairments in tinnitus.
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Skuk VG, Kirchen L, Oberhoffner T, Guntinas-Lichius O, Dobel C, Schweinberger SR. Parameter-Specific Morphing Reveals Contributions of Timbre and Fundamental Frequency Cues to the Perception of Voice Gender and Age in Cochlear Implant Users. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2020; 63:3155-3175. [PMID: 32881631 DOI: 10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Purpose Using naturalistic synthesized speech, we determined the relative importance of acoustic cues in voice gender and age perception in cochlear implant (CI) users. Method We investigated 28 CI users' abilities to utilize fundamental frequency (F0) and timbre in perceiving voice gender (Experiment 1) and vocal age (Experiment 2). Parameter-specific voice morphing was used to selectively control acoustic cues (F0; time; timbre, i.e., formant frequencies, spectral-level information, and aperiodicity, as defined in TANDEM-STRAIGHT) in voice stimuli. Individual differences in CI users' performance were quantified via deviations from the mean performance of 19 normal-hearing (NH) listeners. Results CI users' gender perception seemed exclusively based on F0, whereas NH listeners efficiently used timbre. For age perception, timbre was more informative than F0 for both groups, with minor contributions of temporal cues. While a few CI users performed comparable to NH listeners overall, others were at chance. Separate analyses confirmed that even high-performing CI users classified gender almost exclusively based on F0. While high performers could discriminate age in male and female voices, low performers were close to chance overall but used F0 as a misleading cue to age (classifying female voices as young and male voices as old). Satisfaction with CI generally correlated with performance in age perception. Conclusions We confirmed that CI users' gender classification is mainly based on F0. However, high performers could make reasonable usage of timbre cues in age perception. Overall, parameter-specific morphing can serve to objectively assess individual profiles of CI users' abilities to perceive nonverbal social-communicative vocal signals.
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Affiliation(s)
- Verena G Skuk
- DFG Research Unit Person Perception, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
- Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Phoniatry and Pedaudiology, Jena University Hospital, Germany
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- Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
- Social-Pediatric Centre and Centre for Adults With Special Needs, Trier, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Phoniatry and Pedaudiology, Jena University Hospital, Germany
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, "Otto Körner," University Medical Center Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Phoniatry and Pedaudiology, Jena University Hospital, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Phoniatry and Pedaudiology, Jena University Hospital, Germany
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- DFG Research Unit Person Perception, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
- Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
- Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva, Switzerland
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Jones AB, Farrall AJ, Belin P, Pernet CR. Hemispheric association and dissociation of voice and speech information processing in stroke. Cortex 2015; 71:232-9. [PMID: 26247409 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2015] [Revised: 05/22/2015] [Accepted: 07/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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As we listen to someone speaking, we extract both linguistic and non-linguistic information. Knowing how these two sets of information are processed in the brain is fundamental for the general understanding of social communication, speech recognition and therapy of language impairments. We investigated the pattern of performances in phoneme versus gender categorization in left and right hemisphere stroke patients, and found an anatomo-functional dissociation in the right frontal cortex, establishing a new syndrome in voice discrimination abilities. In addition, phoneme and gender performances were most often associated than dissociated in the left hemisphere patients, suggesting a common neural underpinnings.
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- Anna B Jones
- Brain Research Imaging Centre, The University of Edinburgh, UK; Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK
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- Brain Research Imaging Centre, The University of Edinburgh, UK; Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK; Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone, UMR 7289, CNRS & Université Aix-Marseille, France
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- Brain Research Imaging Centre, The University of Edinburgh, UK; Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
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