With @deouell.bsky.social and Ran Hassin. Read more in the open-access version of the paper:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
When we listen to speech, we do it while constantly predicting upcoming contents. Is this prediction associated with the subjective experience of engaged, conscious listening? What happens when we fail to listen? Come take a look at my poster (P116) tomorrow at @assc28.bsky.social 16:30
First paper is now out in Cortex! We find behavioral and neural evidence for non-conscious speech processing, using a new dual-task paradigm that creates repetitive occurrences of in attentional deafness without masking or degrading stimuli. @deouell.bsky.social
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Negative words are detected *less* often when you focus on another task, regardless of task difficulty, the specific word set, or potentially confounding features. The decision of the system to disengage from a primary (visual, in our case) task might not conform to our conscious intuition.
New in Psychological Science! We've been studying visual non-conscious prioritization processes for decades, but not a lot is known about non-conscious speech processing. Does it conform to the same principles, despite the very different way it functions?
#consciousness #psychscisky #PsychSky
We designed a dual task in which dozens of spoken words evade consciousness, but without degrading the words - if you knew they were coming, you would've heard them. Which features mitigate this "inattentional deafness" that is so familiar in daily lives?
An extraordinary experience!! Huge thanks to all mentors and organizers.
1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
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We found that, while low-level/phonetic features, and pronunciation intelligibility play a large role in determining awareness, word valence plays a role too - suggesting semantic information is prioritized before conscious awareness. And not in the direction you'd think!