lecture 5- attention lecture part 1

Question 1

dichotic listening - Cherry, C. (1993) - some experiments on the recognition of speech, with one and two ears. journal of the acoustical society of america, 25, 975-979

Answer 1

-participants wearing headphones and had to listen to two messages being played simultaneously, sets up this task where people are supposed to shadow one of the messages, which just means to repeat the messages back again- so while they’re listening to it, they’re saying back to the experimenter what they’re hearing in their ear

Playing two recorded messages simultaneously sounds like babbling, unless the content is very distinct.

• When messages are played one in each ear, we can easily “shadow” one
• What happens to the content in the unattended ear? People can’t report:
• Changes in language
• Playing recording backward
• Any content
• They do notice
• If the messages becomes the same in both ears
• A change in the voice’s gender