37.1849, Confs: Pre-workshop at Neurolinguistics in Sweden 2026: Stable Perception of Spectral Information (Sweden)

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Date: 19-May-2026
From: Anna Persson [anna.persson at su.se]
Subject: Pre-workshop at Neurolinguistics in Sweden 2026: Stable Perception of Spectral Information


Pre-workshop at Neurolinguistics in Sweden 2026: Stable Perception of
Spectral Information
Short Title: NLS2026

Date: 11-Jun-2026 - 11-Jun-2026
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Contact: Anna Persson
Contact Email: anna.persson at su.se
Meeting URL:
https://www.su.se/english/divisions/centre-for-research-on-bilingualism/about-the-centre/neurolinguistics-in-sweden-nls2026#h-Preconferenceprogramme

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics;
Psycholinguistics

Stable perception of spectral information across contexts: From
normalization to adaptive category representations
Time: Thursday 11 June, 8.30-12.00
Place: Pärlan, Campus Albano (House 1, floor 6)
One of the striking features of human speech perception is its
stability: despite substantial between-talker differences arising from
variation in vocal tract physiology, language background, and social
factors, listeners typically understand speech with relative ease.
This workshop focuses on the auditory mechanisms thought to contribute
to such stable perception by normalizing the speech signal for
differences in vocal tract size and/or shape.
More specifically, the workshop aims to connect research on the early
normalization of formant and other spectral information with work on
downstream adaptive mechanisms beyond formants. Support for the
existence of formant/spectral normalization has come from behavioral
experiments on speech perception, brain imaging studies, brain stem
recordings, and cross-species comparisons. However, important
questions remain concerning the computations underlying these rapid
and seemingly automatic mechanisms, as well as the extent to which
they interact with top-down information from higher-level
representations of linguistic categories and contexts.
By bringing together researchers with complementary perspectives from
phonetics, cognitive science, neuroscience, and speech technology, the
workshop aims to foster focused discussions of open questions
concerning speech perception, adaptation, and formant/spectral
normalization.
Thanks to generous support from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the
workshop is open to all and free of charge. Please complete this free
registration (https://forms.gle/5bSxcPkC8iakWRba9) if you intend to
attend the workshop but have not registered for NLS 2026.
Workshop Program:
8.30 Welcome address and overview (Anna Persson)
8.45-9.25 Ediz Sohoglu (University of Sussex): Perceptual learning of
modulation filtered speech
9.30-10.10 Kasia Hitczenko (University of Delaware): Speech category
imbalances hinder normalization in naturalistic data
10.10-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-11.10 Santiago Barreda (University of California, Davis), T
Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester) & Anna Persson (University of
Oslo): A one-shot model for joint inferences of talker physiology and
vowel recognition
11.15-11.55 Ondrej Šuch (Slovak Academy of Sciences): Phonetic
explanation of speaker identification systems
11.55-12.00 Wrapping up



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