Listening to Foreign Languages: Pump Up the Volume

• Published in: Journal of cognition Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 32
• Main Authors: New, Boris, Guichet, Clément, Spinelli, Elsa, Barra, Julien
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England European Society for Cognitive Psychology 01.01.2025; Ubiquity Press
• Subjects: Cognitive science; cross-linguistic; lexical feedback activation; Neuroscience; Psychology; spoken word recognition; trace model; word superiority effect; cross-linguistic; TRACE model; spoken word recognition; lexical feedback activation; word superiority effect

In this study, we investigated whether the visual "word height superiority illusion" (New et al., 2016) could be found in the auditory modality. In two experiments, participants listened to a word-word or word-pseudoword pair of the same or different intensity and judged whether one was lo...