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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • Auditory hindsight bias describes the tendency to perceive an auditory stimulus as easier to identify after knowing the correct answer.
  • The fluency-misattribution account suggests that easier processing of a distorted stimulus, due to prior exposure, leads to hindsight bias.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the fluency-misattribution account of auditory hindsight bias.
  • To investigate the interaction between repetition priming and auditory hindsight bias.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted involving an auditory exposure phase and a test phase.
  • Participants heard clearly spoken words multiple times (0, 1, 3, or 6) during exposure.
  • In the test phase, auditory hindsight bias was examined by manipulating the presentation of a clear target word before a distorted version.

Main Results:

  • An underadditive interaction was found between auditory hindsight bias and repetition priming.
  • Without a clear word at test, more frequent exposure led to higher estimates of identification ease.
  • With a clear word at test, estimates were similar regardless of exposure frequency.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support the fluency-misattribution account of auditory hindsight bias.
  • Both auditory hindsight bias and repetition priming appear to involve a common process of fluency misattribution.
  • Misattribution of processing fluency is proposed as the mechanism underlying auditory hindsight bias.