This application proposes a continuation of a program of research to investigate sensory and perceptual processes in spoken communication.
The research aims to develop an empirical description and a principled account of the perceptual organization of speech. This perceptual function establishes the coherence of the speech signal despite its acoustic diversity and complexity, By resolving auditory activity into vocal sources, this fundamental function determines the constituents of the perceptual analysis of the linguistic properties of speech. Four projects comprising twelve experiments are proposed for the coming five years. The research includes a set of studies with adult listeners to determine the relation between auditory and phonetic perceptual organization; a detailed psychophysical evaluation of the perceptual stability of phonetic distinctions; a series of tests of the contributions of naturalness to the resolution of phonetic attributes; and, an appraisal of the perceptual reliance on time-varying acoustic structure that elicits the perception of a talker's identity as well as the spoken message. Together the experiments will elaborate fundamental processes of detecting and maintaining perceptual coherence.
This research aims to understand how the listener copes with apparently limitless variation in the superficial acoustic constituents of speech. In emphasizing the perceptual utility of coarse-grain spectrotemporal properties, these studies can begin to explain the robustness of speech perception when auditory qualities are altered or diminished by disease, and offers an opportunity to identify therapeutic accommodations for failure or loss of perceptual resources.
| Remez, Robert E; Rubin, Philip E (2016) PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION AND LAWFUL SPECIFICATION. Ecol Psychol 28:160-165 |
| Remez, Robert E; Thomas, Emily F; Wycoff, Andrea M et al. (2016) Constraints on Sensitivity to Auditory Modulation in the Perceptual Organization of Speech. Exp Aging Res 42:3-13 |
| Remez, Robert E (2015) ANALOGY AND DISANALOGY IN PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF SPEECH. Lang Cogn Neurosci 30:273-286 |
| Remez, Robert E; Thomas, Emily F; Dubowski, Kathryn R et al. (2013) Modulation sensitivity in the perceptual organization of speech. Atten Percept Psychophys 75:1353-8 |
| Remez, Robert E; Thomas, Emily F (2013) Early recognition of speech. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci 4:213-223 |
| Remez, Robert E; Dubowski, Kathryn R; Broder, Robin S et al. (2011) Auditory-phonetic projection and lexical structure in the recognition of sine-wave words. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:968-77 |
| Remez, Robert E; Dubowski, Kathryn R; Davids, Morgana L et al. (2011) Estimating speech spectra for copy synthesis by linear prediction and by hand. J Acoust Soc Am 130:2173-8 |
| Remez, Robert E; Ferro, Daria F; Dubowski, Kathryn R et al. (2010) Is desynchrony tolerance adaptable in the perceptual organization of speech? Atten Percept Psychophys 72:2054-8 |
| Remez, Robert E; Dubowski, Kathryn R; Broder, Robin S et al. (2009) AUDITORY-PHONETIC PROJECTION AND LEXICAL STRUCTURE IN THE RECOGNITION OF SINE-WAVE WORDS. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 125:2656 |
