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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Speech Perception

Background:

  • Increased task demands can trigger processing adjustments.
  • Previous research on demand-triggered processing adjustments is primarily limited to the visual modality.
  • The auditory modality's response to processing fluency changes is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if auditory speech processing leads to sequential processing adjustments.
  • To determine if changes in auditory signal processing fluency influence these adjustments.
  • To examine this in normal-hearing individuals using spoken number words.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using spoken number words (one to nine).
  • Stimuli varied in perceptual fluency: high (clean speech) and low (vocoded speech or speech in babble noise).
  • Participants judged whether the number was smaller or larger than five.

Main Results:

  • The fluency effect (performance difference between high and low fluency) was reduced after encountering disfluent speech.
  • This indicates that processing adjustments occur in response to auditory processing challenges.
  • Performance improved when auditory signals were easier to process.

Conclusions:

  • Auditory speech processing shows sequential adjustments similar to visual processing.
  • Reduced processing fluency leads to increased cognitive effort in subsequent trials.
  • This finding has implications for understanding speech comprehension under challenging listening conditions.