Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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926646 | Cognition | 2009 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Time is essential to speech. The duration of speech segments plays a critical role in the perceptual identification of these segments, and therefore in that of spoken words. Here, using a French word identification task, we show that vowels are perceived as shorter when attention is divided between two tasks, as compared to a single task control condition. This temporal underestimation pattern is consistent with attentional models of timing and hence demonstrates that vowel duration is explicitly estimated using a central general-purpose timer.
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Authors
Laurence Casini, Boris Burle, Noël Nguyen,