Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, two experiments were carried out to examine the effects of auditory direct priming on perception of spectrally degraded familiar and unfamiliar words. In the first experiment, participants listened to clear spoken words over a headphone in the study phase. Then, a week after the study, they were given degraded words for testing auditory identification. This test was performed one by one. In the second experiment, the same experiment was performed but the following three conditions were different; participants were tested all together, the words were presented from a loudspeaker, and the implicit identification test was given 10 minutes after the study phase. Through the experiments, the performances of studied words were significantly high in both familiar and unfamiliar words. The results indicate that the auditory priming effect was based primarily on the perceptual information such as acoustical properties or sound patterns of the words rather than the semantic information. The findings suggest that auditory implicit memory would contribute to speech perception in our communication in daily life.
Authors: Mika Murao, Yasunari Sasaki
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2981018255