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      Attention within auditory word perception: Insights from the phonemic restoration illusion.

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      Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
      American Psychological Association (APA)

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          Phonemic restoration is a powerful auditory illusion that arises when a phoneme is removed from a word and replaced with noise, resulting in a percept that sounds like the intact word with a spurious bit of noise. It is hypothesized that the configurational properties of the word impair attention to the individual phonemes and thereby induce perceptual restoration of the missing phoneme. If so, this impairment might be unlearned if listeners can process individual phonemes within a word selectively. Subjects received training with the potentially restorable stimuli (972 trials with feedback); in addition, the presence or absence of an attentional cue, contained in a visual prime preceding each trial, was varied between groups of subjects. Cuing the identity and location of the critical phoneme of each test word allowed subjects to attend to the critical phoneme, thereby inhibiting the illusion, but only when the prime also identified the test word itself. When the prime provided only the identity or location of the critical phoneme, or only the identity of the word, subjects performed identically to those subjects for whom the prime contained no information at all about the test word. Furthermore, training did not produce any generalized learning about the types of stimuli used. A limited interactive model of auditory word perception is discussed in which attention operates through the lexical level.

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          Journal
          Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
          Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
          American Psychological Association (APA)
          1939-1277
          0096-1523
          1986
          1986
          : 12
          : 1
          : 70-79
          Article
          10.1037/0096-1523.12.1.70
          2939193
          e36bb58a-7c83-4688-bf30-6d736d0c9079
          © 1986
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