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Combined Effects of Form- and Meaning-Based Predictability on Perceived Clarity of Speech
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Disability Research. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, The Swedish Institute for Disability Research.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8903-7931
Univ Western Ontario, Sch Commun Sci & Disorders, London, Canada; Univ Western Ontario, Dept Psychol, London, Canada.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7810-1333
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Disability Research. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, The Swedish Institute for Disability Research.
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Disability Research. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, The Swedish Institute for Disability Research.
2018 (English)In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, ISSN 0096-1523, E-ISSN 1939-1277, Vol. 44, no 2, p. 277-285Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The perceptual clarity of speech is influenced by more than just the acoustic quality of the sound; it also depends on contextual support. For example, a degraded sentence is perceived to be clearer when the content of the speech signal is provided with matching text (i.e., form-based predictability) before hearing the degraded sentence. Here, we investigate whether sentence-level semantic coherence (i.e., meaning-based predictability), enhances perceptual clarity of degraded sentences, and if so, whether the mechanism is the same as that underlying enhancement by matching text. We also ask whether form- and meaning-based predictability are related to individual differences in cognitive abilities. Twenty participants listened to spoken sentences that were either clear or degraded by noise vocoding and rated the clarity of each item. The sentences had either high or low semantic coherence. Each spoken word was preceded by the homologous printed word (matching text), or by a meaningless letter string (nonmatching text). Cognitive abilities were measured with a working memory test. Results showed that perceptual clarity was significantly enhanced both by matching text and by semantic coherence. Importantly, high coherence enhanced the perceptual clarity of the degraded sentences even when they were preceded by matching text, suggesting that the effects of form- and meaning-based predictions on perceptual clarity are independent and additive. However, when working memory capacity indexed by the Size-Comparison Span Test was controlled for, only form-based predictions enhanced perceptual clarity, and then only at some sound quality levels, suggesting that prediction effects are to a certain extent dependent on cognitive abilities. (PsycINFO Database Record

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American Psychological Association (APA), 2018. Vol. 44, no 2, p. 277-285
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speech, predictability, noise-vocoding, perceptual clarity, working memory
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-139161DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000442ISI: 000428378500009PubMedID: 28557490Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85042009368OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-139161DiVA, id: diva2:1119233
Available from: 2017-07-03 Created: 2017-07-03 Last updated: 2018-05-17Bibliographically approved

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