SPEECH PERCEPTION AND MEMORY IN AN EPISODIC LEXICON

情景词典中的语音感知和记忆

• 批准号: 6159991
• 负责人: Stephen D Goldinger
• 金额: $ 20.27万
• 依托单位: ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2003-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6159991
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); attention; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; human subject; long term memory; model design /development; noise; phonology; psychoacoustics; psychological models; short term memory; speech; speech recognition; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION: This research would investigate lexical representations in long-term memory and the processes that both encode and retrieve those representations. Most theories assume that speech waveforms are converted to phoneme strings, which are then compared to the mental lexicon. When comparison yields a match, the word is "recognized." The typical view emphasizes the abstract properties of words: A speech signal containing idiosyncratic information (e.g., speakers' voice, ambient noise) is normalized into a canonical form and then matched to abstract lexical entries. Few theories consider idiosyncrasies of speech as more than "noise" in the signal. However, a multiple-trace memory model posits that such details of perceptual experience are not forgotten; instead, they are integral to later perception. The proposed research and simulations (using Hintzman's, 1986, MINERVA 2 model) have already produced encouraging results (Goldinger, 1998). The proposed research will test the predictive limits of the extant model, with embellished versions as necessary. In Project 1, perception and memory experiments will test the factors that govern episodic content, examining roles of selective attention and working memory. The experiments will also examine the nature and extent of perceptual-conceptual tradeoffs in trace formation. According to the model, these dimensions should be flexible and emergent, depending largely upon processing tasks and working-memory resources. The experiments in Project 2 will examine memory for larger episodic units, using full sentences as stimuli. Memory for sentences will also be assessed using a novel speech-production method, examining the acoustic-phonetic content of subject's spoken responses. As in previous research, subjects are expected to spontaneously imitate the acoustic patterns of the stimulus sentences, in terms of duration, pitch, and intonation. Moreover, the model predicts that degrees of imitation will be affected by "abstract" characteristics of the sentences, such as syntactic and semantic complexity, suggesting that the acoustic manifestations of speech reflect a complex interplay of the linguistic stimuli and their episodic representations.

描述：本研究将探讨英语的词汇表征