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    Individual Differences in the Discrimination of Novel Speech Sounds: Effects of Sex, Temporal Processing, Musical and Cognitive Abilities

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    Date
    2012-11-05
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    Kempe, Vera
    Thoresen, John C.
    Kirk, Neil W.
    Schaeffler, Felix
    Brooks, Patricia J.
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    Kempe, V., Thoresen, J., Kirk, N., Schaeffler, F. & Brooks, P. (2012) Individual Differences in the Discrimination of Novel Speech Sounds: Effects of Sex, Temporal Processing, Musical and Cognitive Abilities, PLoS ONE, vol. 7, , ,
    Abstract
    This study examined whether rapid temporal auditory processing, verbal working memory capacity, non-verbal intelligence, executive functioning, musical ability and prior foreign language experience predicted how well native English speakers (N = 120) discriminated Norwegian tonal and vowel contrasts as well as a non-speech analogue of the tonal contrast and a native vowel contrast presented over noise. Results confirmed a male advantage for temporal and tonal processing, and also revealed that temporal processing was associated with both non-verbal intelligence and speech processing. In contrast, effects of musical ability on non-native speech-sound processing and of inhibitory control on vowel discrimination were not mediated by temporal processing. These results suggest that individual differences in non-native speech-sound processing are to some extent determined by temporal auditory processing ability, in which males perform better, but are also determined by a host of other abilities that are deployed flexibly depending on the characteristics of the target sounds.
     
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048623
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    https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/2980
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