Senior Theses
Publication Date
2012
Document Type
Thesis (Open Access)
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Department
Psychology
Faculty Advisor(s)
Kay Livesay (Thesis Advisor) Lee Bakner, Eugene Gilden, & Chuck Dunn (Committee Members)
Subject Categories
Psychology
Abstract
Speech perception relies on auditory, visual, and motor cues and has been historically difficult to model, partially due to this multimodality. One of the current models is the Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception (FLMP), which suggests that if one of these types of speech mode is altered, the perception of that speech signal should be altered in a quantifiable and predictable way. The current study uses social priming to activate the schema of blindness in order to reduce reliance of visual cues of syllables with a visually identical pair. According to the FLMP, by lowering reliance on visual cues, visual confusion should also be reduced, allowing the visually confusable syllables to be identified more quickly. Although no main effect of priming was discovered, some individual syllables showed the expected facilitation while others showed inhibition. These results suggest that there is an effect of social priming on speech perception, despite the opposing reactions between syllables. Further research should use a similar kind of social priming to determine which syllables have more acoustically salient features and which have more visually salient features.
Recommended Citation
Broussard, Sierra N., "The Influence of Social Priming on Speech Perception" (2012). Senior Theses. 2.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/psycstud_theses/2
