title: Recalibration of auditory phonemes by lipread speech is ear-specific.
abstract: Listeners quickly learn to label an ambiguous speech sound if there is lipread information that tells what the sound should be (i.e., phonetic recalibration Bertelson, Vroomen, & de Gelder (2003)). We report the counter-intuitive result that the same ambiguous sound can be simultaneously adapted to two opposing phonemic interpretations if presented in the left and right ear. This is strong evidence against the notion that phonetic recalibration involves an adjustment of abstract phoneme boundaries. It rather supports the idea that phonetic recalibration is closely tied to the sensory specifics of the learning context.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Mirjam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keetels
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pecoraro
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Electronic address: j.vroomen@uvt.nl.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vroomen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002138:Calibration; D004423:Ear / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Generalization; Lipreading; Phonetic recalibration; Speech perception