title: Neural Systems Underlying Perceptual Adjustment to Non-Standard Speech Tokens.
abstract: It has long been noted that listeners use top-down information from context to guide perception of speech sounds. A recent line of work employing a phenomenon termed 'perceptual learning for speech' shows that listeners use top-down information to not only resolve the identity of perceptually ambiguous speech sounds, but also to adjust perceptual boundaries in subsequent processing of speech from the same talker. Even so, the neural mechanisms that underlie this process are not well understood. Of particular interest is whether this type of adjustment comes about because of a retuning of sensitivities to phonetic category structure early in the neural processing stream or whether the boundary shift results from decision-related or attentional mechanisms further downstream. In the current study, neural activation was measured using fMRI as participants categorized speech sounds that were perceptually shifted as a result of exposure to these sounds in lexically-unambiguous contexts. Sensitivity to lexically-mediated shifts in phonetic categorization emerged in right hemisphere frontal and middle temporal regions, suggesting that the perceptual learning for speech phenomenon relies on the adjustment of perceptual criteria downstream from primary auditory cortex. By the end of the session, this same sensitivity was seen in left superior temporal areas, which suggests that a rapidly-adapting system may be accompanied by more slowly evolving shifts in regions of the brain related to phonetic processing.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, 850 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT 06269 ; University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs, CT 06269 ; Brown University, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, 190 Thayer Street, Providence, RI 02912 ; Haskins Laboratories, 300 George Street #900, New Haven, CT 06511.
authors.forename: Emily B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.affiliation: Brown University, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, 190 Thayer Street, Providence, RI 02912 ; Haskins Laboratories, 300 George Street #900, New Haven, CT 06511.
authors.forename: Laura M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Mesite
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