Speaker information affects false recognition of unstudied lexical-semantic associates.

ABSTRACT: Recognition of and memory for a spoken word can be facilitated by a prior presentation of that word spoken by the same talker. However, it is less clear whether this speaker congruency advantage generalizes to facilitate recognition of unheard related words. The present investigation employed a false memory paradigm to examine whether information about a speaker's identity in items heard by listeners could influence the recognition of novel items (critical intruders) phonologically or semantically related to the studied items. In Experiment 1, false recognition of semantically associated critical intruders was sensitive to speaker information, though only when subjects attended to talker identity during encoding. Results from Experiment 2 also provide some evidence that talker information

SUBMITTER: Luthra S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6003774 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature