Trained panels can bypass consensus vocabulary because perception varies less than description

Evidence

The former refers to perceptual differences induced by differences in the speech tokens and/or the masking noise tokens; the latter describes perceptual differences caused by withinand across-listener uncertainty. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5572 (#expands, via linked claim)

Another possibility is that confusion between within-pattern intervals and between-pattern transpositions may make individual patterns less distinctive, and so increase the task difficulty. Therefore, we also investigated the effects of transposition size and interactions between transposition size and within-phase intervals. Finally, the predictive coding account of perception (Friston 2005 ) suggests that the precision with which perceptual discriminations can be made is inversely related to stimulus variance, suggesting that task difficulty would increase with variance of standard phrase pitch intervals. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5269 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trained listener panels differ systematically from the general audience; Visual speech-feedback training fails because identical percepts can have different sound traces; Perceptual discrimination precision falls as stimulus variance rises — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5269 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Visual speech-feedback training fails because identical percepts can have different sound traces #complicates (0.85)
• Perception variability splits into source-induced and receiver-related components #expands (0.82) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5572
• Perceptual discrimination precision falls as stimulus variance rises #corroborates (0.80) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5269