Year: 2007
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this study we investigated to what extent a\nmeaningful sentence context facilitates spoken\nword processing in young and older listeners if\nlistening is made taxing by time-compressing the\nspeech. Even though elderly listeners have been\nshown to benefit more from sentence context in\ndifficult listening conditions than young listeners,\ntime compression of speech may interfere with\nsemantic comprehension, particularly in older\nlisteners because of cognitive slowing. The results\nof a target detection experiment showed that,\nunlike young listeners who showed facilitation by\ncontext at both rates, elderly listeners showed\ncontext facilitation at the intermediate, but not at\nthe fastest rate. This suggests that semantic\ninterpretation lags behind target identification.
Source: MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society)
Authors: Esther Janse, M. van der Werff, Hugo Quené
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1522147822