A general auditory bias for handling speaker variability in speech? Evidence in humans and songbirds

Different speakers produce the same speech sound differently, yet listeners are still able to reliably identify the speech sound. How listeners can adjust their perception to compensate for speaker differences in speech, and whether these compensatory processes are unique only to humans, is still no...

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Main Authors: Buddhamas eKriengwatana, Paola eEscudero, Anne H Kerkhoven, Carel eten Cate
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01243/full