title: Reading ability influences native and non-native voice recognition, even for unimpaired readers.
abstract: Research suggests that phonological ability exerts a gradient influence on talker identification, including evidence that adults and children with reading disability show impaired talker recognition for native and non-native languages. The present study examined whether this relationship is also observed among unimpaired readers. Learning rate and generalization of learning in a talker identification task were examined in average and advanced readers who were tested in both native and non-native language conditions. The results indicate that even among unimpaired readers, phonological competence as captured by reading ability exerts a gradient influence on perceptual learning for talkers' voices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, 850 Bolton Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA.
authors.forename: Minal A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kadam
authors.affiliation: School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, 2001 McGill College, 8th Floor, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G1, Canada minal.kadam@uconn.edu, adriel.orena@mail.mcgill.ca, rachel.theodore@uconn.edu, linda.polka@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Adriel John
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Orena
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, 850 Bolton Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA.
authors.forename: Rachel M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Theodore
authors.affiliation: School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, 2001 McGill College, 8th Floor, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G1, Canada minal.kadam@uconn.edu, adriel.orena@mail.mcgill.ca, rachel.theodore@uconn.edu, linda.polka@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Polka
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology; D014831:Voice / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult