Selecting one of two regular sound sequences: perceptual and motor effects of tempo.

This study assessed the influence of tempo on selecting a sound sequence. In Exp. 1, synchronization with one of the two regular subsequences in a complex sequence was measured.

Unattended speech processing: effect of vocal-tract length.

Rivenez et al. [J. Acoust.

Processing unattended speech.

Three experiments examine the effect of a difference in fundamental frequency (F0) range between two simultaneous voices on the processing of unattended speech. Previous experiments have only found evidence for the processing of nominally unattended speech when it has consisted of isolated words which could have attracted the listener's attention. A paradigm recently used by Dupoux et al.