ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2023
Online mouse cursor trajectories distinguish phonological activation by linguistic and nonlinguistic sounds.
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- Impact of irrelevant speech and non-speech sounds on serial recall of verbal and spatial items in children and adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Input device matters for measures of behaviour in online experiments.Psychological research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Four online mouse cursor tracking experiments (total N = 208) examined the activation of phonological representations by linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory stimuli. Participants hearing spoken words (e.g., "bell") produced less direct mouse cursor trajectories toward corresponding pictures or text when visual arrays also included phonologically related competitors (e.g., belt) as compared with unrelated distractors (e.g., hose), but no such phonological competition was observed during environmental sounds (e.g., the ring of a bell). While important similarities have been observed between spoken words and environmental sounds, these experiments provide novel mouse cursor evidence that environmental sounds directly activate conceptual knowledge without needing to engage linguistic knowledge, contrasting with spoken words. Implications for theories of conceptual knowledge are discussed.
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