Auditory recognition without identification

When visual recognition test items are unidentifiable--through fragmentation, for example--participants can discriminate between unidentifiable items that were presented recently and those that were not. The present study extends this recognition without identification phenomenon to the auditory mod...

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Published in:Memory & cognition 2007-12, Vol.35 (8), p.1869-1877
Main Authors: CLEARY, Anne M, WINFIELD, Moriah M, KOSTIC, Bogdan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Audition
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Comprehension
Cues
Experiments
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Identification
Memory
Mental Recall
Noise
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Perception
Perceptual Masking
Phonetics
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Reading
Semantics
Sensory perception
Speech Perception
Studies
Verbal Learning
Voice recognition
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Summary:When visual recognition test items are unidentifiable--through fragmentation, for example--participants can discriminate between unidentifiable items that were presented recently and those that were not. The present study extends this recognition without identification phenomenon to the auditory modality. In several experiments, participants listened to words and were then presented with spoken recognition test items that were embedded in white noise. Participants attempted to identify each spoken word through the white noise, then rated the likelihood that the word was studied. Auditory recognition without identification was found: Participants discriminated between studied and unstudied words in the absence of an ability to identify them through white noise, even when the voice changed from male to female and when the study list was presented visually. The effect was also found when identification was hindered through the isolation of particular phonemes, suggesting that phoneme information may be present in memory traces for recently spoken words.
ISSN:0090-502X
1532-5946
DOI:10.3758/BF03192921