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An auditory cue-depreciation effect.

J M Gibson¹, M J Watkins

¹Department of Psychology, Grinnell College, IA 50112.

The American Journal of Psychology

|January 1, 1991

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Repeated exposure to degraded speech reduces word identification accuracy, a phenomenon known as the cue-depreciation effect. This effect is lessened when target words are not pre-exposed or when testing is delayed.

Area of Science:

Auditory perception research
Cognitive psychology
Speech processing

Background:

Previous research demonstrated a "cue-depreciation effect" in the visual modality.
The effect describes how prior exposure to degraded stimuli can impair recognition of subsequent, similar stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the "cue-depreciation effect" in the auditory modality.
To examine factors influencing the strength of this effect in speech perception.

Main Methods:

Subjects listened to word lists and then identified degraded utterances of those words.
Experiment 1 tested immediate identification after degraded pre-exposures.
Experiment 2 manipulated pre-exposure lists and delayed testing intervals.

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Main Results:

Identification accuracy decreased when degraded utterances preceded target word identification (cue-depreciation effect).
The cue-depreciation effect was significantly weakened when the target word was absent from the initial list.
A delay of two days in testing also reduced the observed cue-depreciation effect.

Conclusions:

The cue-depreciation effect is present in auditory speech perception.
Prior exposure to degraded auditory information negatively impacts subsequent word recognition.
The effect is context-dependent, influenced by list composition and temporal factors.