Abstract
The word attention is beginning to appear more frequently in speech research, but closer examination suggests that this term can refer to a variety of potentially unrelated phenomena. The goal of this talk is to begin a discussion of these various phenomena, in the form of a preliminary, and subjective, overview of some areas of speech perception research in which ‘‘attention’’ is starting to play a more prominent role, including experimentally and contextually determined changes in cue weighting, foreign language acquisition, speech perception by elderly and/or hearing‐impaired listeners and cochlear implant users, normal and disordered language development, perception of spoken discourse, and multimodal speech perception. I will also discuss some areas of basic attention research in which speech research may be able to make a unique contribution, including theories of the nature and role of auditory ‘‘objects’’ in spatial and object‐based attention, load‐based theories, and research on the interaction of attention and long‐ and short‐term (working) memory and perceptual learning. [Work supported by NIH‐NIDCD R03DC006811.]
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