Semantic context boosts competitor fixations in natural speech but not degraded speech

Evidence

For the fixations to the semantic distractor, as significant emerged the interactions between Context and Presentation and the intercept of the curve (χ 2(3) = 2268.6 p < 0.001), the interaction with the quadratic term (χ 2(3) = 337.25, p < 0.001), the interaction between the cubic term, (χ 2(3) = 69.41, p < 0.001), and the quartic term (χ 2(3) = 19.09, p < 0.05). These interactions reflect what can also be seen in a comparison of between NS and DS in Fig. 1 . Namely that in NS, listeners fixate the semantic competitor more often in the context sentences than in neutral context. This effect is absent for DS. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3986

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3986