Familiar Voices Are Easier to Understand, Even If We Don’t Recognize Them
Familiar voices are easier to understand and this advantage holds even if we don’t actually recognize a familiar voice, researchers find. More
Familiar voices are easier to understand and this advantage holds even if we don’t actually recognize a familiar voice, researchers find. More
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Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: The Missing-Phoneme Effect in Aural Prose Comprehension Jean Saint-Aubin, Raymond M. Klein, Mireille Babineau, John Christie, and David W. Gow, Jr. Studies repeatedly show that when people read text for comprehension while searching for a target letter, they miss a great number More
A new study from psychology researchers at UCLA provides insights into how the brain combines sound and vision. The research suggests that there is not one sole mechanism in the brain that governs how much our senses work together to process information. Among the implications of the study: It might More
Imagine yourself at a reception, chatting one on one with another guest. You struggle to hear everything the person is saying amid the din of surrounding conversation, but even though you miss a word here and there, you have enough context to understand the gist of what the person is More