{"title":"The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception.","authors":"Rachel Hayes-Harb, Shannon Barrios","doi":"10.1121/10.0028277","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0028277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Building on previous observations of variability in speech research, we examine variability in speech perception study materials associated with the specific talker and contrast under examination. English-speaking listeners completed a web-based auditory AXB task involving Hindi dental-retroflex stop contrasts produced by four talkers. Main effects of talker and contrast, as well as the interaction of the two, were observed. Further, there was a great deal of individual listener variation. These findings complicate our ability to characterize the difficulty that Hindi dental-retroflex contrasts pose for English speakers, and lead to critical questions concerning the generalizability of speech perception study findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142001496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andria K Salas, Michele A Sims, Craig A Harms, Wendy E D Piniak, T Aran Mooney
{"title":"Narrowband noise induces frequency-specific underwater temporary threshold shifts in freshwater turtles.","authors":"Andria K Salas, Michele A Sims, Craig A Harms, Wendy E D Piniak, T Aran Mooney","doi":"10.1121/10.0028321","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0028321","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Freshwater turtles exhibit temporary threshold shifts (TTS) when exposed to broadband sound, but whether frequency-restricted narrowband noise induces TTS was unknown. Underwater TTS was investigated in two freshwater turtle species (Emydidae) following exposures to 16-octave narrowband noise (155-172 dB re 1 μPa2 s). While shifts occurred in all turtles at the noise center frequency (400 Hz), there were more instances of TTS and greater shift magnitudes at 12 octave above the center frequency, despite considerably lower received levels. These frequency-specific data provide new insight into how TTS manifests in turtles and expand empirical models to predict freshwater turtle TTS.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142019736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Markus von Berg, Hendrik Himmelein, Jochen Steffens
{"title":"Effects of noise sensitivity and listening effort on perceptual ratings of background noise.","authors":"Markus von Berg, Hendrik Himmelein, Jochen Steffens","doi":"10.1121/10.0028201","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0028201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research suggests that noise sensitivity is related to inefficient auditory processing that might increase the mental load of noise and affect noise evaluation. This assumption was tested in an experiment using a dual-task paradigm with a visual primary task and an auditory secondary task. Results showed that participants' noise sensitivity was positively correlated with mental effort. Furthermore, mental effort mediated the effect of noise sensitivity on loudness and unpleasantness ratings. The results thus support the idea that noise sensitivity is related to increased mental effort and difficulties in filtering auditory information and that situational factors should be considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141977363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J E Brosseau, V M Eddington, E C Craig, E R White, L N Kloepper
{"title":"The effect of localized disturbance on the acoustic behavior of the common tern (Sterna hirundo).","authors":"J E Brosseau, V M Eddington, E C Craig, E R White, L N Kloepper","doi":"10.1121/10.0028204","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0028204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, passive acoustic monitoring was used to assess the impact of investigator disturbance on the acoustic behavior of a colony of common terns. A graded antipredator response in the colony was hypothesized, which would result in an increase in acoustic energy with increased proximity to investigator disturbance. Human disturbance was found to result in a significant increase in acoustic energy within 20 meters of recorders, though not from farther distances. Our findings provide a framework for assessing the behavioral impact of disturbance on colonies and support the existence of a graded alarm call system in common terns.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142302635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast time-domain solution of the cochlear transmission line model in real-time applications.","authors":"Yasuki Murakami","doi":"10.1121/10.0028278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0028278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A fast numerical time-domain solution for a one-dimensional cochlear transmission-line model was proposed for real-time applications. In this approach, the three-dimensional solver developed by Murakami [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 150(4), 2589-2599 (2021)] was modified to develop a solution for the one-dimensional model. This development allows the solution to accurately and quickly calculate cochlear responses. The present solution can solve the model in real-time under coarse grid conditions. However, under fine-grid conditions, the computation time is significantly longer than the duration of the signal. Nevertheless, calculations can be performed under the fine grid condition, which previously required much computation time. This fact is essential to applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142001495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maxime Bilodeau, Jérémy Moriot, Joëlle Fréchette-Viens, Raphaël Bouchard, Philippe Boulais, Nicolas Quaegebeur, Patrice Masson
{"title":"Embedded real-time ultrasound-based multi-touch system.","authors":"Maxime Bilodeau, Jérémy Moriot, Joëlle Fréchette-Viens, Raphaël Bouchard, Philippe Boulais, Nicolas Quaegebeur, Patrice Masson","doi":"10.1121/10.0028323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0028323","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, an active ultrasound-based touchscreen technology is presented for real-time monitoring of multiple contacts on a glass panel of 20 × 19 cm. Both fundamental Lamb wave modes are generated by sending a linear chirp between 50 and 100 kHz to a single piezoelectric ceramic lead zirconate titanate. Measurement is performed using four piezoelectric ceramic lead zirconate titanate elements, and real-time localization and detection are performed on a system on module i.MX 8 M Nano. Results show that Lamb waves can be used for real-time multi-touch detection and localization on both sides of the panel. Moreover, the prototype developed allows for relative pressure measurement.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kali Burke, Laurel A Screven, Sergio Vicencio-Jimenez, Amanda M Lauer
{"title":"Auditory brainstem response audiometry in tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer's disease.","authors":"Kali Burke, Laurel A Screven, Sergio Vicencio-Jimenez, Amanda M Lauer","doi":"10.1121/10.0026602","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0026602","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder in which changes in hearing sensitivity precede cognitive decline. Despite a well-known link between dementia and hearing loss, few AD model mouse lines have hearing characterized. We screened for hearing loss using auditory brainstem responses (ABR) in young (3-4 months) and aging (9-10 months) mice with a P301S tauopathy (PS19 mice). Compared to wild types, aging PS19 mice did not show accelerated hearing loss but did show latency differences in centrally generated ABR waveform components. These results suggest that tauopathy causes mild central auditory dysfunction in the absence of overt hearing loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11240211/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141560405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vincent Isnard, Véronique Chastres, Guillaume Andéol
{"title":"French version of the coordinate response measure corpus and its validation on a speech-on-speech task.","authors":"Vincent Isnard, Véronique Chastres, Guillaume Andéol","doi":"10.1121/10.0028059","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0028059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since its creation, the coordinate response measure (CRM) corpus has been applied in hundreds of studies to explore the mechanisms of informational masking in multi-talker situations, but also in speech-in-noise or auditory attentional tasks. Here, we present its French version, with equivalent content to the original version in English. Furthermore, an evaluation of speech-on-speech intelligibility in French shows informational masking with similar result patterns to the original data in English. This validation of the French CRM corpus allows to propose the use of the CRM for intelligibility tests in French, and for comparisons with a foreign language under masking conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141763038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Auriane Boudin, Stéphane Rauzy, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache
{"title":"How is your feedback perceived? An experimental study of anticipated and delayed conversational feedback.","authors":"Auriane Boudin, Stéphane Rauzy, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache","doi":"10.1121/10.0026448","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0026448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents a different experiment examining the impact of feedback timing on its perception. Dialog sequences, featuring a main speaker's utterance followed by a listener's feedback, were extracted from spontaneous conversations. The original feedback instances were manipulated to be produced earlier, up to 1.5 s in advance, or to be delayed, up to 2 s later. Participants evaluated the feedback acceptability and engagement level of the listener. The findings reveal that 76% of the time feedback remains acceptable regardless of the delay. However, engagement decreases after a 1-s delay while no consistent effect is observed for feedback anticipation.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141565573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Rose Bellavance, Amanda Eads, Aidan Katson, José Álvarez Retamales, Alden McCollum, Auromita Mitra, Lisa Davidson
{"title":"Vowel nasalization does not cue ambisyllabicity in American English nasals: Evidence from nasometrya).","authors":"Sarah Rose Bellavance, Amanda Eads, Aidan Katson, José Álvarez Retamales, Alden McCollum, Auromita Mitra, Lisa Davidson","doi":"10.1121/10.0027940","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0027940","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using visual spectrographic examination of vowel nasalization to diagnose the syllabic affiliation of phonologically ambisyllabic nasal consonants (e.g., gamma), Durvasula and Huang [(2017). Lang. Sci. 62, 17-36] argued that anticipatory vowel nasalization in these words patterns with word-medial codas. Using nasometry, the current study finds that anticipatory nasalization before monomorphemic and multimorphemic (scammer) ambisyllabic nasals differ from word-medial coda (gamble) and word-final nasals (scam), but not from other intervocalic nasals. Additionally, vowel nasalization is sensitive to the manner of the preceding phoneme. These findings demonstrate that quantifying anticipatory nasalization using nasometry differs from visual spectrographic criteria.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}