Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140104389

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140104389

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Explaining the native-language listening advantage by charting neural response and perceptual adaptation across languages – but within individuals. Listening to the native language is easier than listening to a second language. This advantage is especially clear in recognising voices and in listening in noise. Identifying talkers was recently shown to involve rapid perceptual adjustment to their speech sounds, and successful listening in noise to involve adjustment of word recognition processes. This project tests the prediction that listeners more efficiently deploy each type of adjustment in the native than in a second language, by comparing native with second language phonetic and lexical processing within individuals. Further, a novel fMRI method in which target brain regions are defined functionally in each subject will identify the neural basis of the native listening advantage.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2014

End Date: 30-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $440,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance | Cognitive Science | Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension) | Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture

Other Keywords

Cognitive Science | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science | Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension) | Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance

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