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- Title
Attention capture by own name decreases with speech compression.
- Authors
Li, Simon Y. W.; Lee, Alan L. F.; Chiu, Jenny W. S.; Loeb, Robert G.; Sanderson, Penelope M.
- Abstract
Auditory stimuli that are relevant to a listener have the potential to capture focal attention even when unattended, the listener's own name being a particularly effective stimulus. We report two experiments to test the attention-capturing potential of the listener's own name in normal speech and time-compressed speech. In Experiment 1, 39 participants were tested with a visual word categorization task with uncompressed spoken names as background auditory distractors. Participants' word categorization performance was slower when hearing their own name rather than other names, and in a final test, they were faster at detecting their own name than other names. Experiment 2 used the same task paradigm, but the auditory distractors were time-compressed names. Three compression levels were tested with 25 participants in each condition. Participants' word categorization performance was again slower when hearing their own name than when hearing other names; the slowing was strongest with slight compression and weakest with intense compression. Personally relevant time-compressed speech has the potential to capture attention, but the degree of capture depends on the level of compression. Attention capture by time-compressed speech has practical significance and provides partial evidence for the duplex-mechanism account of auditory distraction.
- Subjects
SPEECH; ATTENTION; WORD recognition; AUDITORY perception; DISTRACTION
- Publication
Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 2024, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2365-7464
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s41235-024-00555-9