{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13"],"submitter":["Failes E"],"pubmed_abstract":["Several recent studies have demonstrated context-based, high-confidence misperceptions in hearing, referred to as <i>false hearing</i>. These studies have unanimously found that older adults are more susceptible to false hearing than are younger adults, which the authors have attributed to an age-related decline in the ability to inhibit the activation of a contextually predicted (but incorrect) response. However, no published work has investigated this activation-based account of false hearing. In the present study, younger and older adults listened to sentences in which the semantic context provided by the sentence was either unpredictive, highly predictive and valid, or highly predictive and misleading with relation to a sentence-final word in noise. Participants were tasked with clicki"],"journal":["Frontiers in psychology"],"pagination":["821044"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9150819"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Using Eye-Tracking to Investigate an Activation-Based Account of False Hearing in Younger and Older Adults."],"pmcid":["PMC9150819"],"pubmed_authors":["Sommers MS","Failes E"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Using Eye-Tracking to Investigate an Activation-Based Account of False Hearing in Younger and Older Adults.","description":"Several recent studies have demonstrated context-based, high-confidence misperceptions in hearing, referred to as <i>false hearing</i>. These studies have unanimously found that older adults are more susceptible to false hearing than are younger adults, which the authors have attributed to an age-related decline in the ability to inhibit the activation of a contextually predicted (but incorrect) response. However, no published work has investigated this activation-based account of false hearing. In the present study, younger and older adults listened to sentences in which the semantic context provided by the sentence was either unpredictive, highly predictive and valid, or highly predictive and misleading with relation to a sentence-final word in noise. Participants were tasked with clicki","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2025-04-26T07:32:23.082Z","creation":"2025-04-06T12:17:34.221Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9150819","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35651579"],"doi":["10.3389/fpsyg.2022.821044"]}}