Hello Mastodon! I have created a simple #auditory#illusion as a demo for the kind of effect I'm investigating, and would love your feedback! Here's the gist: you will first hear a "aba" sound and "a ada" sound, followed by a series of sounds in a weird background noise, then the exact same series of sounds in quiet... Please give it a try and let me know what you think! #AuditoryIllusion#psychoacoustics#psycholinguistics@psychology@psycholinguistics
Last year’s Twitter migration, where a large number of people decided to move to Mastodon, is an example of a giant collective behavioural change that people engaged in voluntarily. A new paper takes a look at how the collective coordination happened, and what can be learned as the drivers of such a collective action.
The social connections in the community are relatively sparse. There is a cost to severing a social connection, and in a tight-knit community the social cost of leaving is higher.
Community members repeatedly post about their migration plans. The more people post with the #twittermigration hashtag, the more likely people are to follow up on the call.
Language use that emphasises a shared identity and the exchanges factual knowledge. Cooperation in a community can be facilitated when discussions and conversations create a sense of belonging to the group.
The blog post explaining the research can be found here, the paper here.
In this thread-of-threads I will list the toot-summaries I write about my recent articles. Just trying to get bits organized... (BTW all my publications are #OpenAccess and listed here: https://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/publications/)
New #OpenAccess article published in JASA-EL @AcousticalSocietyofAmerica! We used a new technique to explore how listeners segment continuous speech sounds into words. A thread and a demo ⬇️
I have just released a preprint with my postdoc advisor Maryellen MacDonald in which we argue that constraint satisfaction theories of sentence comprehension -- and in particular ambiguity resolution -- have been (partially) implemented in the probabilistic learning objective of (some) large language models. We are very open to comments and discussion and we hope you like the work! https://osf.io/kjd63
New #OpenAccess article published in JASA-EL @AcousticalSocietyofAmerica! We used a new technique to explore how listeners segment continuous speech sounds into words. A thread and a demo ⬇️
Anybody here going to Forum Acusticum #FA2023 in Torino next week? My team will be there in force with 3 oral presentations:
12 September (11:40 - 12:00): Alejandro Osses “Using auditory models to mimic human listeners in reverse correlation experiments from the fastACI toolbox” (https://hal.science/hal-04186363/document)
13 September (17:20 - 17:40): Laurianne Cabrera “Development of Auditory Sensitivity to Amplitude Modulation Cues: Sensory and Cognitive Determinants and Relationship With Speech Intelligibility”
There's a special issue that is highly relevant to my work on the surface but which I'm struggling a lot to figure out -- stuff about how language models (#LLMs) and #psycholinguistics can mutually inform each other yadda yadda
Our paper presents the results of 2 participants in all 5 phonetic contrasts, revealing their individual listening strategies. The findings align with established auditory cues in psycholinguistic literature while uncovering unexpected secondary cues, enriching our understanding of auditory perception. #psycholinguistics@psycholinguistics
Exciting news! Our conference paper titled "Auditory reverse correlation applied to the study of place and voicing: four new phoneme-discrimination tasks" has been accepted for presentation at #ForumAcusticum2023#FA2023! This is the foundation stone for a bigger study to be published next year, and also a summary of our overall scientific aim in the team. https://hal.science/hal-04130939
This research is at the juncture between #psycholinguistics, #phonetics and #auditory perception, employing the Auditory #ReverseCorrelation (#revcorr) experimental paradigm. This approach unravels the acoustic cues employed by listeners in diverse auditory tasks, shedding light on individual perception strategies. @psycholinguistics
Our paper presents the results of 2 participants in all 5 phonetic contrasts, revealing their individual listening strategies. The findings align with established auditory cues in psycholinguistic literature while uncovering unexpected secondary cues, enriching our understanding of auditory perception. #psycholinguistics@psycholinguistics@psycholinguistics