Familiarity, Expertise, and Change Detection: Change Deafness is Worse in Your Native Language. (February 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Neuhoff, John G; Schott, Steven A; Kropf, Adam J; Neuhoff, Emily M
• Is Part Of: Perception. Volume 43:Number 2/3(2014)
• Page Start: 219
• Page End: 222
• Publication Date: 2014-02
• Subjects: change deafness -- language familiarity effect -- expertise; Perception -- Periodicals; Perception -- Periodicals; Perception; Periodicals; 153.705
• DOI: 10.1068/p7665
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0301-0066

Abstract

We first replicated the language-familiarity effect for voice discrimination and found better voice discrimination in familiar languages. However, when listeners were not cued to listen for changes, both English and Spanish speakers exhibited greater change deafness in their familiar language. Results suggest that lexical/semantic attention in a familiar language and increased indexical processing in an unfamiliar language can produce greater change deafness in familiar languages.