Playing degraded speech after its clear version primes listeners toward intelligibility

Evidence

A standard trial consisted of a first presentation (snippet a ) in which the speech was degraded using noise-vocoding as previously described. Therefore it was largely unintelligible. The second snippet (snippet b ) contained the same speech, but in its original clear form. The noise-vocoded version was then played again (snippet c ). As such, this third condition was affected by priming because the original clear speech was played immediately before and because the speech was vocoded at the limit of intelligibility. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4371

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does prior clear presentation genuinely cause greater neural or perceptual recovery of degraded speech, or is the effect purely acoustic?
• XREF: connects to: Forest-dwelling birds can decode degraded songs down to a minimal core code — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 650