Forewarning of a content quiz shapes which speech level listeners attend to

Evidence

To increase the efficiency of the attentional demand, participants were informed that they would be questioned on the content of either the “syllables” or the “sentences” material at the end of the experiment. A practice session was provided for all of them and most of the participants were indeed able to recall specific syllables or words. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5158