Auditory Feedback and Musical Keyboard Performance

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Finney
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Feedback Condition ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Feedback Effects ◽  
Delayed Auditory Feedback ◽  
Significant Impairment

In an investigation into the role of auditory feedback guidance in musical performance, musically experienced subjects performed on an electronic keyboard under altered feedback conditions that included pitch and timing manipulations, as well as absence of auditory feedback. The results largely replicated the data reported by Gates and Bradshaw (1974): performance in the absence of auditory feedback showed no impairment, whereas performance under delayed auditory feedback showed significant impairment. In an extension of the Gates and Bradshaw study, however, it was found that altered pitch feedback caused little or no impairment and that altering the pitches in the delayed auditory feedback condition significantly reduced the amount of delayed auditory feedback impairment. These results show that different components of auditory feedback (pitch and timing) have separable effects on musical performance and pose a problem for theories of auditory feedback effects that do not explicitly distinguish these components.

Stutter and phenomena: The phenomenology and deconstruction of delayed auditory feedback

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Roshaya Rodness
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
The Self ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Delayed Auditory Feedback ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Internal Division

Jacques Derrida’s early critique of Husserlian phenomenology discusses the production of the ‘phenomenological voice’ as the consummate model of human consciousness. Challenging Husserl’s conviction that consciousness is produced from the self-enclosed act of ‘hearing-oneself-speak’, Derrida points to vocality as the complex site of the self’s relationship to presence and exteriority. The internal division between hearing and speaking, he argues, introduces difference into the generation of conscious life. The use of delayed auditory feedback (DAF) as a prosthetic for stuttering provides an opportunity to engage Derrida’s insights on the connection between consciousness and voice with an ear to the speech of people who stutter. DAF, which may reduce or increase dysfluency depending on the speech of the user, introduces a series of delays, alterations and supplements to speech that underwrite the heterogeneous experience of conscious life. What can the philosophy of deconstruction add to conversations about the function of DAF, and what can theory about and experiences with DAF teach us about the self’s presence to itself and the role of alterity in shaping speech? What does stuttering teach us about the necessity of dysfluency for all speech? This article examines the relation between the voice and the phenomenological voice, and between stuttering and prosthetics. Concluding with an analysis of Richard Serra’s experimental recording, Boomerang (1974), it argues that voice is always already prostheticized with alterity, and that in hearing-oneself-speak we exist with voice in an expansive and unfinished conversation with our own mystery.

Speech Monitoring and Verbal Learning

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
George R. Davis ◽  
Joseph G. Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Paired Associate ◽  
Verbal Learning ◽  
Feedback Condition ◽  
Delayed Auditory Feedback ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Verbal Tasks ◽  
Speech Monitoring ◽  
Auditory Monitoring

The effects of interference with auditory feedback on two verbal learning tasks were studied. Twenty-seven adults without speech or hearing handicaps practiced two verbal tasks (reading comprehension and paired associate) under three auditory monitoring conditions. A synchronous auditory feedback condition provided amplified but almost simultaneous auditory feedback. To provide an irrelevant feedback condition, S’s heard their own previously recorded voices reading other material. Delayed auditory feedback provided a second experimental condition. Results confirmed that delayed auditory feedback interfered significantly with efficient verbal learning. A clear and direct relationship between the amount and relevance of verbal feedback and the efficiency of speech-based learning was demonstrated.

Ear differences and delayed auditory feedback: Effects on a speech and a music task.

1971 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Bradshaw ◽  
Norman C. Nettleton ◽  
Gina Geffen
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Feedback Effects ◽  
Delayed Auditory Feedback

Delayed Auditory Feedback and the Speech of Stuttering and Non-Stuttering Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly A. Timmons ◽  
James P. Boudreau
Keyword(s):  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Feedback Condition ◽  
Speaking Rate ◽  
Delayed Auditory Feedback ◽  
Difference Scores ◽  
Delay Times ◽  
Speaking Task

25 male stutterers and 25 male non-stutterers matched by age and speaking task, read or recited under normal and 113-, 226-, 306-, 413-, 520-msec. delayed auditory feedback conditions. Changes in speaking rate and disfluency count from normal to each delayed auditory feedback condition were calculated as indicators of reaction to delayed auditory feedback. Using an analysis of variance of difference scores for speaking rate, no significant differences were found between stutterers and non-stutterers or among the delays. An analysis of variance of disfluency difference scores showed no differences between stutterers and non-stutterers. Significant differences in disfluency reaction among delay times were found.

Age, Sex, and Delay Time as Factors Affecting Reaction to Delayed Auditory Feedback

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly A. Timmons ◽  
James P. Boudreau
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Delay Time ◽  
Feedback Condition ◽  
Speaking Rate ◽  
Delayed Auditory Feedback ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Nursery Rhyme ◽  
Older Subjects ◽  
Post Hoc

Five groups of 10 males and 10 females each, aged 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 yr., recited a nursery rhyme under normal delay and 113-, 226-, 306-, 403-, and 520-msec delayed auditory-feedback conditions. Speaking rate and disfluency count changes from normal delay to each delayed auditory feedback condition were calculated as indicators of reaction to delayed auditory feedback. Analyses of variance and post hoc comparisons indicated that 5-yr.-olds reacted with greater change in rate at 520-msec. delayed auditory feedback than did older subjects. Five- and 7-yr.-olds were more disfluent at 413- and 520-msec. delayed auditory feedback than were older subjects. Sex differences were found in the 7-, 11-, and 13-yr.-old groups, using speaking rate as a measure of delayed auditory-feedback reaction. No significant sex differences were noted when disfluencies were used as indicators of delayed auditory-feedback reaction.

Aftereffects of Delayed Auditory Feedback

1965 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 817-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Zalosh ◽  
Leonard F. Salzman
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Delay Time ◽  
Feedback Condition ◽  
Delayed Auditory Feedback

This experiment was designed to test whether there are aftereffects on speech to delayed auditory feedback and whether the aftereffects, if any, are a function of the severity of disruption of speech under the feedback condition. Fifty-seven Ss, divided into three equal groups, were exposed to various combinations of delay time and intensity of feedback. Comparisons of pre- and post-sidetone responses revealed no evidence of aftereffects on speech. No relationship to induced severity of speech disruption was found.

Influence of Altered Auditory Feedback on Oral–Nasal Balance in Speakers of Brazilian Portuguese

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 3752-3762
Author(s):  
Gillian de Boer ◽  
Viviane Marino ◽  
Larissa Berti ◽  
Eliana Fabron ◽  
Evelyn Alves Spazzapan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Feedback Condition ◽  
Compensatory Response ◽  
Repeated Measures Analysis ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Vowel Nasalization ◽  
Post Hoc

Purpose This study explored the role of auditory feedback in the regulation of oral–nasal balance in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. Method Twenty typical speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (10 male, 10 female) wore a Nasometer headset and headphones while continuously repeating stimuli with oral and nasal sounds. Oral–nasal balance was quantified with nasalance scores. The signals from 2 additional oral and nasal microphones were played back to the participants through the headphones. The relative loudness of the nasal channel in the mix was gradually changed, so that the speakers heard themselves as more or less nasal. Results A repeated-measures analysis of variance of the mean nasalance scores of the stimuli at baseline, minimum, and maximum nasal feedback conditions demonstrated significant effects of nasal feedback condition ( p < .0001) and stimuli ( p < .0001). Post hoc analyses demonstrated that the mean nasalance scores were lowest for the maximum nasal feedback condition. The scores of the minimum nasal feedback condition were significantly higher than 2 of 3 baseline feedback conditions. The speaking amplitude of the participants did not change between the nasal feedback conditions. Conclusions Increased nasal signal level feedback led to a compensatory adjustment in the opposite direction, confirming that oral–nasal balance is regulated by auditory feedback. However, reduced nasal signal level feedback resulted in a compensatory response that was lower in magnitude. This suggests that, even in Brazilian Portuguese, a language with phonetic and phonological vowel nasalization, decreased nasality was not perceived as critically as increased nasality by the speakers.

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