Priming can vary recognition of degraded speech while holding the stimulus fixed

Evidence

By utilising priming, we can control how much a degraded speech stimulus is recognised without changing the stimulus itself, exploiting the fact that speech recognition is an active process (Hickok 2012 ). In doing so, we demonstrate a framework for examining speech-specific processing using EEG. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4372

By utilising priming, we can control how much a degraded speech stimulus is recognised without changing the stimulus itself, exploiting the fact that speech recognition is an active process (Hickok 2012 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4371

Categorization

• XREF: Top-down predictive processing; relates to Hickok’s dual-stream feedback/control model cited here, and to the reader’s interest in cognition-driving-perception mechanisms. — connects to: A single public event can retroactively re-frame a hearer’s whole memory of coded language — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 295
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4372; Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4371