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Samra Alispahic¹, Elizabeth Pellicano^2,3, Anne Cutler^4,5,6

¹The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. s.alispahic@westernsydney.edu.au.

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Autistic adults, unlike non-autistic adults, showed no processing costs when listening to speech from multiple talkers. This suggests autistic perception may accommodate talker variability differently, impacting speech and language processing theories.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Speech and Language Sciences

Background:

Accommodating talker variability is crucial for effective communication, involving attention to vocal characteristics and linguistic content.
Multi-talker environments typically incur processing costs due to the interdependence of voice and phonological processing.
Effects of multi-talker processing on autistic individuals, who often have atypical perceptual and language processing, remain unexamined.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of talker variability on speech processing in autistic and non-autistic adults.
To determine if autistic individuals experience processing costs in multi-talker environments.

Main Methods:

A word-monitoring task was used with Australian English autistic (n=24) and non-autistic (n=28) adults.
Participants responded to target words presented in randomized sequences spoken by either a single talker or multiple talkers.
Sensitivity scores and response times were analyzed to assess processing efficiency.

Main Results:

Autistic participants showed comparable sensitivity to target words in both single- and multi-talker conditions.
Non-autistic participants exhibited expected processing costs (slower response times) in the multi-talker condition.
Autistic listeners did not show different response times across single- and multi-talker conditions, indicating no perceptual processing cost.

Conclusions:

Autistic adults do not appear to incur perceptual processing costs when accommodating talker variability in speech.
These findings challenge existing theories of autistic perception and highlight unique aspects of speech and language processing in autism.
Further research is needed to understand the implications for language learning and communication in autistic populations.