Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: To what degree listeners can maintain gradient subcategorical information about speech input in memory over time has been a matter of considerable debate. The literature has largely lacked formal computational models of potential mechanisms against which to compare human behavior. Here, we formalize several competing cognitive models of this process and quantitatively compare them to data from a series of behavioral experiments. We find consistently strong evidence in favor of models which allow for maintenance of subcategorical information over the course of an utterance. These results suggests that listeners are able to maintain relatively fine-grained details about prior linguistic input over long perceptual timescales. This work also highlights the importance of formalizing cognitive models of behavior to distinguish between competing theoretical mechanisms.
Source: Glossa Psycholinguistics
DOI: 10.5070/g6011.40229
Author: Wednesday Bushong
Institution: Wellesley College
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W4410082801