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The development of automatic perceptual responses to speech stimuli was examined. In the first experiment, phoneme-monitoring performance for speech syllables was examined under conditions in which stimulus-to-response mapping and memory load were manipulated. The results indicated that automaticity develops under consistent-mapping conditions. In the second experiment, a dual-task procedure was combined with mapping and selective attention manipulations in order to examine the development of automaticity across single- and multiple-channel conditions. The results indicated that performance under consistently mapped training conditions was interfered with by dividing attention across multiple channels of input. It is concluded that there may be differences in the way that automaticity develops across visual and auditory modalities and that these differences need to be examined more closely.
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The research reported here was supported by NINCDS Grant 5 R0l NS19653-02 to the State University of New York at Buffalo and by NIH Training Grant NS-07134-09 to Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
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Mullennix, J.W., Sawusch, J.R. & Garrison, L.F. Automaticity and the detection of speech. Mem Cogn 20, 40–50 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03208252
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