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Lexical access without attention? Explorations using dichotic priming.

Emmanuel Dupoux1, Sid Kouider, Jacques Mehler

  • 1Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. dupoux@lscp.ehess.fr

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|April 3, 2003
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Unattended stimuli can be processed lexically if they are acoustically salient. Increased acoustic saliency of unattended words enhances lexical processing and awareness, challenging late filtering models.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Understanding how the brain processes information that is not the focus of attention is crucial in cognitive psychology.
  • Dichotic listening tasks are commonly used to investigate selective attention and auditory processing.
  • Lexical decision tasks assess word recognition and semantic processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether unattended auditory stimuli can undergo lexical processing.
  • To examine the role of acoustic saliency in the lexical processing of unattended stimuli.
  • To test the predictions of late filtering models of attention.

Main Methods:

  • Lexical decision task within a dichotic listening paradigm.
  • Measurement of identity priming across auditory channels.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Manipulation of temporal synchronization between prime and target words.
  • Variation of acoustic saliency of unattended primes (carrier sentence vs. babble speech).

    • Main Results:

    • A cross-channel priming effect was observed when unattended primes were acoustically salient, with participants also aware of the prime.
    • No identity priming occurred when unattended primes were less acoustically salient, and participants did not notice the prime.
    • Saliency manipulations did not degrade the prime's intelligibility.

    Conclusions:

    • Lexical processing of unattended stimuli is possible but contingent on acoustic saliency.
    • Findings contradict late filtering models, which suggest priming should occur regardless of saliency.
    • Acoustic saliency appears to be a critical factor for both lexical access and awareness of unattended auditory information.