{"id":7991,"date":"2016-02-08T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7991"},"modified":"2016-02-07T22:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T02:17:36","slug":"linglunch-211-john-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/02\/08\/linglunch-211-john-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling Lunch 2\/11 - John Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/jkingstn\/research\/\"><strong>John Kingston<\/strong><\/a> (UMass Amherst)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: When Do Words Influence Perception? Converging Evidence that the Ganong Effect is Early<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Thursday, February 11<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 12:30-1:45pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<p>(joint work with Amanda Rysling, Adrian Staub, Andrew Cohen, and Jeffrey Starns)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ganong (1980, JEP:HPP, 6, 110-125) first showed that listeners prefer to<br clear='none'\/>\ncategorize ambiguous stimuli from a word-nonword continuum with the<br clear='none'\/>\ncategory corresponding to the word endpoint. Fox (1984, JEP:HPP 10,<br clear='none'\/>\n526-540) showed that this preference, the so-called &#8220;Ganong effect,&#8221; was<br clear='none'\/>\nstronger in slower than faster responses, perhaps because it takes time<br clear='none'\/>\nfor a word to be activated and for that activation to feed back on the<br clear='none'\/>\nphonemic decision process. Subsequent work has failed to replicate Fox&#8217;s<br clear='none'\/>\nfinding (see Pitt & Samuel, 1993, JEP:HPP, 19, 699-725, for additional<br clear='none'\/>\nevidence and a metanalysis). We present evidence using four different<br clear='none'\/>\ndesigns, free response, response signal, eye tracking, and gating, that<br clear='none'\/>\nwords are instead activated and influence categorization as soon as the<br clear='none'\/>\nlistener hears supporting acoustic evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: John Kingston (UMass Amherst) Title: When Do Words Influence Perception? Converging Evidence that the Ganong Effect is Early Date: Thursday, February 11 Time: 12:30-1:45pm Location: 32-D461 (joint work with Amanda Rysling, Adrian Staub, Andrew Cohen, and Jeffrey Starns) Ganong (1980, JEP:HPP, 6, 110-125) first showed that listeners prefer to categorize ambiguous stimuli from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7995,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}