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About Face: Seeing The Talker Improves Spoken Word Recognition But Increases Listening Effort, Violet Brown
About Face: Seeing The Talker Improves Spoken Word Recognition But Increases Listening Effort, Violet Brown
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It is widely accepted that seeing a talker improves a listener’s ability to understand what a talker is saying in background noise (e.g., Erber, 1969; Sumby & Pollack, 1954). The literature is mixed, however, regarding the influence of the visual modality on the listening effort required to recognize speech (e.g., Fraser, Gagné, Alepins, & Dubois, 2010; Sommers & Phelps, 2016). Here, we present data showing that even when the visual modality robustly benefits recognition, processing audiovisual speech can still result in greater cognitive load than processing speech in the auditory modality alone. We show using a dual-task paradigm …
Evaluating The Latent Variable Structure Of Episodic Long-Term Memory Abilities, Kyle Featherston
Evaluating The Latent Variable Structure Of Episodic Long-Term Memory Abilities, Kyle Featherston
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I investigated how recall and recognition differ depending on the nature of the memory items and what one is asked to remember about them. Participants were asked to remember lists of various types of verbal items, including words, nonwords, common first names, and the names of common objects in pictures that they viewed, or to remember the contextual information that accompanied those items, including their size, location, color, or font. Immediately following presentation of each list, free recall or recognition tests for items or context were administered. It has been proposed that memory for context, or source memory, differs from …
The Effect Of Talker And Contextual Variability On Memory For Words In Sentences, Nichole Runge
The Effect Of Talker And Contextual Variability On Memory For Words In Sentences, Nichole Runge
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Previous research has found that adding different forms of variability during study can affect later memory at test. For example, having words spoken by different talkers has been shown to improve recall of known and novel words (Goldinger et al., 1999; Barcroft & Sommers, 2005), and varying the cues in cue-target related word pairs has been found to improve recall of the targets (Glenberg, 1979; Bevan et al., 1966). It was unclear, however, whether benefits of variability would extend to more naturalistic stimuli, such as sentences, which have higher working memory demands. The present set of experiments investigated how talker …