Speech-to-Speech Synchronization protocol to classify human participants as high or low auditory-motor synchronizers

Fernando Lizcano-Cortés, Ireri Gómez-Varela, Cecilia Mares, Pascal Wallisch, Joan Orpella, David Poeppel, Pablo Ripollés, M Florencia Assaneo

STAR protocols (2022)


Abstract

The ability to synchronize a motor action to a rhythmic auditory stimulus is often considered an innate human skill. However, some individuals lack the ability to synchronize speech to a perceived syllabic rate. Here, we describe a simple and fast protocol to classify a single native English speaker as being or not being a speech synchronizer. This protocol consists of four parts: the pretest instructions and volume adjustment, the training procedure, the execution of the main task, and data analysis.


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101248