title: Listening natively across perceptual domains?
abstract: Our native tongue influences the way we perceive other languages. But does it also determine the way we perceive nonlinguistic sounds? The authors investigated how speakers of Italian, Turkish, and Persian group sequences of syllables, tones, or visual shapes alternating in either frequency or duration. We found strong native listening effects with linguistic stimuli. Speakers of Italian grouped the linguistic stimuli differently from speakers of Turkish and Persian. However, speakers of all languages showed the same perceptual biases when grouping the nonlinguistic auditory and the visual stimuli. The shared perceptual biases appear to be determined by universal grouping principles, and the linguistic differences caused by prosodic differences between the languages. Although previous findings suggest that acquired linguistic knowledge can either enhance or diminish the perception of both linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory stimuli, we found no transfer of native listening effects across auditory domains or perceptual modalities. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Area, SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Langus
authors.affiliation: School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences.
authors.forename: Shima
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seyed-Allaei
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Area, SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies.
authors.forename: Ertuğrul
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Uysal
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Area, SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies.
authors.forename: Sahar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pirmoradian
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Area, SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies.
authors.forename: Caterina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marino
authors.affiliation: Functional Neurosurgery Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
authors.forename: Sina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asaadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Boğaziçi University.
authors.forename: Ömer
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Eren
authors.affiliation: ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
authors.forename: Juan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Toro
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Psicologıa, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
authors.forename: Marcela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peña
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
authors.forename: Ricardo A H
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bion
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Area, SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nespor
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D007558:Italy; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology; D014163:Transfer, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D014421:Turkey; D014833:Voice Quality / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult