Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Samuel, Arthur G."
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An evolutionary account of intermodality differences in statistical learning
Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Samuel, Arthur G. (Wiley, 2021)The cognitive mechanisms underlying statistical learning are engaged for the purposes of speech processing and language acquisition. However, these mechanisms are shared by a wide variety of species that do not possess ... -
Auditory Selective Adaptation Moment by Moment, at Multiple Timescales
Samuel, Arthur G.; Dumay, Nicolas (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2021)Over the course of a lifetime, adults develop perceptual categories for the vowels and consonants in their native language, based on the distribution of those sounds in their environment. However, in any given listening ... -
Bad maps may not always get you lost: Lexically driven perceptual recalibration for substituted phonemes
Charoy, Jeanne; Samuel, Arthur G. (SPRINGER, 2023)The speech perception system adjusts its phoneme categories based on the current speech input and lexical context. This is known as lexically driven perceptual recalibration, and it is often assumed to underlie accommodation ... -
Better than native: Tone language experience enhances English lexical stress discrimination in Cantonese-English bilingual listeners
Choi, William; Tong, Xiuli; Samuel, Arthur G. (Cognition, 2019)While many second language (L2) listeners are known to struggle when discriminating non-native features absent in their first language (L1), no study has reported that L2 listeners perform better than native listeners in ... -
Commentary on "Sentential influences on acoustic-phonetic processing: a Granger causality analysis of multimodal imaging data"
Samuel, Arthur G. (Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016)... -
Does seeing an Asian face make speech sound more accented?
Zheng, Yi; Samuel, Arthur G. (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2017)Prior studies have reported that seeing an Asian face makes American English sound more accented. The current study investigates whether this effect is perceptual, or if it instead occurs at a later decision stage. We ... -
Examining Bilingual Language Switching Across the Lifespan in Cued and Voluntary Switching Contexts
de Bruin, Angela; Samuel, Arthur G.; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2020)How bilinguals control their languages and switch between them may change across the life span. Furthermore, bilingual language control may depend on the demands imposed by the context. Across 2 experiments, we examined ... -
Flexibility and stability of speech sounds: The time course of lexically-driven recalibration
Zheng, Yi; Samuel, Arthur G. (ELSEVIER, 2023)Perceptual stability is obviously advantageous, but being able to adjust to the prevailing environment is also adaptive. Previous research has identified ways in which the categorization of speech sounds shifts as a ... -
How much do visual cues help listeners in perceiving accented speech?
Zheng, Yi; Samuel, Arthur G. (Applied Psycholinguistics, 2019)It has been documented that lipreading facilitates the understanding of difficult speech, such as noisy speech and time-compressed speech. However, relatively little work has addressed the role of visual information in ... -
Intermodality differences in statistical learning: phylogenetic and ontogenetic influences
Polyanskaya, Leona; Manrique, Héctor M.; Samuel, Arthur G.; Marín, Antonio; García-Palacios, Azucena; Ordin, Mikhail (WILEY, 2022)In Basque–Spanish bilinguals, statistical learning (SL) in the visual modality was more efficient on nonlinguistic than linguistic input; in the auditory modality, we found the reverse pattern of results.We hypothesize ... -
Is speech recognition automatic? Lexical competition, but not initial lexical access, requires cognitive resources
Zhang, Xujin; Samuel, Arthur G. (Journal of Memory and Language, 2018)Current models of spoken word recognition suggest that multiple lexical candidates are activated in parallel upon hearing an utterance, with these lexical hypotheses competing with each other for recognition. The current ... -
Just give it time: Differential effects of disruption and delay on perceptual learning
Baese-Berk, Melissa M.; Samuel, Arthur G. (SPRINGER, 2022)Speech perception and production are critical skills when acquiring a new language. However, the nature of the relationship between these two processes is unclear, particularly for non-native speech sound contrasts. ... -
Lexical access versus lexical decision processes for auditory, visual, and audiovisual items: Insights from behavioral and neural measures
López Zunini, Rocío A.; Baart, Martijn; Samuel, Arthur G.; Armstrong, Blair C. (Neuropsychologia, 2020)In two experiments, we investigated the relationship between lexical access processes, and processes that are specifically related to making lexical decisions. In Experiment 1, participants performed a standard lexical ... -
Lexical representations are malleable for about one second: Evidence for the non-automaticity of perceptual recalibration
Samuel, Arthur G. (Cognitive Psychology, 2016)In listening to speech, people have been shown to apply several types of adjustment to their phonemic categories that take into account variations in the prevailing linguistic environment. These adjustments include ... -
Lexico-semantic access and audiovisual integration in the aging brain: Insights from mixed-effects regression analyses of event-related potentials
López Zunini, Rocío A.; Baart, Martijn; Samuel, Arthur G.; Armstrong, Blair C. (ELSEVIER, 2022)We investigated how aging modulates lexico-semantic processes in the visual (seeing written items), auditory (hearing spoken items) and audiovisual (seeing written items while hearing congruent spoken items) modalities. ... -
Listeners beware: Speech production may be bad for learning speech sounds
Baese-Berk, Melissa M.; Samuel, Arthur G. (Journal of Memory and Language, 2016)Spoken language requires individuals to both perceive and produce speech. Because both processes access lexical and sublexical representations, it is commonly assumed that perception and production involve cooperative ... -
Listening to Accented Speech in a Second Language: First Language and Age of Acquisition Effects
Larraza Arnanz, Saioa ; Samuel, Arthur G.; Oñederra Olaizola, Miren Lourdes (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016)Bilingual speakers must acquire the phonemic inventory of 2 languages and need to recognize spoken words cross-linguistically; a demanding job potentially made even more difficult due to dialectal variation, an intrinsic ... -
Phonemic contrasts under construction? Evidence from Basque
Attunement theories of speech perception development suggest that native-language exposure is one of the main factors shaping infants' phonemic discrimination capacity within the second half of their first year. Here, ... -
Prediction of Agreement and Phonetic Overlap Shape Sublexical Identification
Martin, Andrea E.; Monahan, Philip J.; Samuel, Arthur G. (Language and Speech, 2017)The mapping between the physical speech signal and our internal representations is rarely straightforward. When faced with uncertainty, higher-order information is used to parse the signal and because of this, the lexicon ... -
Psycholinguists should resist the allure of linguistic units as perceptual units
Samuel, Arthur G. (Journal of Memory and Language, 2020)The current study has empirical, methodological, and theoretical components. It draws heavily on two recent papers: Bowers et al. (2016) (JML, 87, 71–83) used results from selective adaptation experiments to argue that ...