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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 1354-1366Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-019-01580-2
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Speech; Motor theory of speech perception; Motor cortex; Articulatory suppression
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- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01 DC009659, DC009659] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent evidence suggests that the motor system may have a facilitatory role in speech perception during noisy listening conditions. Studies clearly show an association between activity in auditory and motor speech systems, but also hint at a causal role for the motor system in noisy speech perception. However, in the most compelling causal studies performance was only measured at a single signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). If listening conditions must be noisy to invoke causal motor involvement, then effects will be contingent on the SNR at which they are tested. We used articulatory suppression to disrupt motor-speech areas while measuring phonemic identification across a range of SNRs. As controls, we also measured phoneme identification during passive listening, mandible gesturing, and foot-tapping conditions. Two-parameter (threshold, slope) psychometric functions were fit to the data in each condition. Our findings indicate: (1) no effect of experimental task on psychometric function slopes; (2) a small effect of articulatory suppression, in particular, on psychometric function thresholds. The size of the latter effect was 1 dB (similar to 5% correct) on average, suggesting, at best, a minor modulatory role of the speech motor system in perception.
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