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Sandra Campeanu¹, Fergus I M Craik, Claude Alain

¹Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. scampeanu@research.baycrest.org

|March 26, 2013

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Reinstating the study voice at test improved spoken word recognition and source memory. Event-related potentials (ERPs) showed context congruency benefits in both behavioral and neural measures.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology
Speech Processing

Background:

Context congruency aids spoken word memory, but its neural underpinnings are debated.
Voice parameters (gender, accent) are key contextual cues in memory.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how voice context congruency influences word and source recognition.
To identify event-related potential (ERP) correlates of voice context effects in memory.

Main Methods:

Participants performed word and source recognition tasks with words spoken in varying voice congruency conditions.
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during recognition tasks.

Main Results:

Reinstating the study voice at test significantly improved both word and source recognition.
Behavioral improvements were paralleled by ERP modulations: a left parietal old/new effect for word recognition and a right frontal positivity for source recognition.

Conclusions:

Voice context congruency benefits spoken word memory at both behavioral and neural levels.
ERP findings suggest context congruency recruits neural mechanisms associated with recognition memory.