Semantic context changes fixations to semantic distractors only in natural speech
Evidence
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…, 3978
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Semantic context boosts competitor fixations in natural speech but not degraded speech (similarity 0.93)
- Semantic context boosts looks to distractor pictures only in clear speech (similarity 0.89)
- Degraded speech delays peak competitor fixations by roughly 300 milliseconds (similarity 0.81)
- Speech perception resolves word candidate competition before a decision is made (similarity 0.81)
- Semantic context can compensate for degraded acoustic speech signals (similarity 0.80)
- Semantic knowledge helps listeners interpret degraded speech signals (similarity 0.78)
- Sentential context reduces lexical competition effort, but degraded speech delays that reduction (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Perception completes masked vocal phrases using semantic context to make them continuous
#corroborates(0.75) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1659