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James M McQueen¹, Falk Huettig

¹Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, and Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Postbus 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. j.mcqueen@pwo.ru.nl

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Listeners show flexible speech processing, adjusting visual attention based on speech distortion. Auditory noise impacts spoken word recognition by altering confidence in perceived sounds.

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Auditory Perception
Cognitive Science

Background:

Speech perception relies on integrating auditory and contextual cues.
Understanding how listeners adapt to distorted speech is crucial for explaining real-world communication.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate contextual flexibility in spoken word recognition under acoustic distortion.
To examine how speech quality influences visual attention during auditory sentence processing.

Main Methods:

An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with Dutch participants processing Dutch sentences and four-picture displays.
Participants fixated on pictures whose names overlapped in onset phonemes or rhymed with critical words in the sentences.
Acoustic distortion was introduced by replacing phonemes in the sentences with noise, mimicking radio static.

Main Results:

Listeners fixated more on onset-overlap pictures than rhyme-overlap pictures in noise-free conditions.
This tendency shifted with acoustic distortion: less fixation on onset-overlap and more on rhyme-overlap pictures.
The position of noise within the sentence did not affect fixation patterns.

Conclusions:

Speech perception exhibits contextual flexibility, adapting to varying levels of acoustic distortion.
Auditory noise reduces listener confidence in identifying words, impacting spoken word recognition.
The perceived reliability of acoustic evidence dynamically influences spoken word recognition strategies.