[AUDITORY] Special issue of AP&P in honour of Randy Diehl

[Meghan Clayards <meghan.clayards@xxxxxxxxx>]

This announcement can also be found here:

http://www.springer.com/psychology/cognitive+psychology/journal/13414/PS2?detailsPage=press

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Guest Editors: John Kingston, Lisa Sanders, Meghan Clayards, Lori Holt, Andrew Lotto

The journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, an official journal of the Psychonomic Society, is requesting submissions on the topic of the perceptual/cognitive constraints on the structure of speech communication in honor of the career and contributions of Randy Diehl.

Submissions are due by July 15, 2018 for publication in mid 2019.

We will consider regular Research Articles, Short Reports, and a limited number of Opinion/Review pieces. For Opinion / Review submissions, please send a presubmission inquiry to jkingston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This special issue is coordinated with a two day Symposium in honor of Randy Diehl held in Austin, TX, April 20-21, 2018.

Randy Diehl has been a leader in uncovering the ways through which processes of audition, learning, and cognition support perception of speech and other complex sounds. The symposium will include presentations related to the major theoretical themes in Randy Diehl’s work. Two of these themes are: general auditory processes in speech perception and the interaction of learning systems and statistical structure in speech communication.

Randy Diehl has been a leader in uncovering the ways through which processes of audition, learning, and cognition support perception of speech and other complex sounds. The symposium will include presentations related to the major theoretical themes in Randy Diehl’s work. Two of these themes are: general auditory processes in speech perception and the interaction of learning systems and statistical structure in speech communication.

General Auditory Processes in Speech Perception:

Because the auditory system is an essential component of speech communication, the fingerprints of auditory processing should be apparent in the structure of speech sound systems. The extent that speech sound representations are auditory representations (as opposed to, for example, gestural representations) has been a theoretical/empirical debate in which Randy Diehl has been an active participant for decades. New data available from neuroscience extend and refine this debate. Progress on understanding the encoding and processing of complex sounds in the auditory system also continues to inform theories of speech perception.

Interaction of Learning Systems and Statistical Structure in Speech Communication:

Randy Diehl was early to recognize the importance of understanding general learning mechanisms in supporting speech processing. The ability of humans to induce auditory categories from distributions of experienced exemplars has been proposed as the basis of first and second language phoneme acquisition. It is important to provide properly constrained models of this learning that can accommodate the successes and failures evident in human speech sound learning.

For the Special Issue, we welcome papers on these topics or other topics related to the work of Randy Diehl. Submission is via the standard journal website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pandp

Any inquiries can be directed to John Kingston at jkingston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dr. Meghan Clayards
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music
McGill University

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