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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Auditory Perception

Background:

  • Understanding speech in complex auditory environments, like a cocktail party, is challenging.
  • Executive functions are hypothesized to play a role in filtering irrelevant auditory information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between executive functions and speech-in-speech perception.
  • To examine how attention influences semantic priming in a speech-in-speech context.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-modal semantic priming paradigm was used with written targets and spoken primes within concurrent auditory sentences.
  • Participants performed a lexical decision task while attending to one of two sentences, manipulating attention to the prime.
  • Executive functions (inhibitory control, switching, response suppression, working memory) were assessed.

Main Results:

  • A significant interaction between attention and semantic priming was observed.
  • Semantic priming occurred in the attended but not the ignored auditory condition.
  • Priming effects in the ignored condition correlated with executive function measures, excluding working memory.

Conclusions:

  • Attention is essential for semantic priming effects in speech perception.
  • Executive functions are implicated in the capacity to understand speech in noisy environments.