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- Title
Change deafness: the inability to detect changes between two voices.
- Authors
Vitevitch, Michael S
- Abstract
A shadowing task was used to demonstrate an auditory analogue of change blindness (the failure to detect a change in a visual scene), namely change deafness. Participants repeated words varying in lexical difficulty. Halfway through the word list, either the same or a different talker presented the words to participants. At least 40% of the participants failed to detect the change in talker. More interesting is that differences in shadowing times were found as a function of change detection. Alternative possibilities to the change detection phenomenon were ruled out. The results of these experiments suggest that the allocation of attention may influence the detection of changes as well as the processing of spoken words in complex ways.
- Publication
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 2003, Vol 29, Issue 2, p333
- ISSN
0096-1523
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0096-1523.29.2.333