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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.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 29 |
Journal | Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 12 May 2024 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Simon Y. W. Li and Alan L. F. Lee: Joint first authors.We would like to thank Noel Bautista for conducting the pilot study which guided the design of the current study.
© 2024. The Author(s).
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© The Author(s) 2024.
Funding
SYWL, ALFL, PMS and RGL acknowledge support for this research from Hong Kong’s General Research Fund project 13601919. We are grateful for further strategic support funds from the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland and the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia.
Keywords
- Attention capture
- Cocktail party effect
- Time-compressed speech
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Auditory displays for anaesthetists: preliminary laboratory testing of earcons and spearcons for preattentive effectiveness (麻醉師的聽覺顯示器:初步實驗測試earcons 和spearcons的預先注意效能)
LEE, A. (PI), LI, Y. W. S. (CoI), SANDERSON, P. M. (CoI), LOEB, R. G. (CoI) & CHENG, C. P. B. (CoI)
Research Grants Council (HKSAR)
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Grant Research