Altered Selective Attention or Increased Imagination: Effects of Eye Closure on Vocal Expression Perception.
Purpose: This study investigated how eye closure (EC) affects vocal expression perception, testing two hypotheses: Hypothesis 1 proposes that EC enhances selective attention to task-related cues while suppressing prosodic processing, predicting higher expressiveness ratings for full (unmodified) ver...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 69; no. 4; pp. 1395 - 1419 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=192982168&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 192982168 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2026 vid: 69 iid: 4 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 192982168 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00294 ppf: 1395 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.8MB tig: atl: Altered Selective Attention or Increased Imagination: Effects of Eye Closure on Vocal Expression Perception. aug: au: Jiang, Xiaoming Luo, Renneng Yang, Qi affil: Institute of Language Sciences, Shanghai International Studies University, China Key Laboratory of Language Science and Multilingual Intelligence Applications, Shanghai, China College of Education, Fuyang Normal University, China su: Task performance Confidence Anxiety Sound recordings Communication Imagination College students Statistical models Prompts (Psychology) Sound Computer software Data analysis Research funding Selectivity (Psychology) Factorial experiment designs Fatigue (Physiology) Questionnaires Chi-squared test Multivariate analysis Physiological aspects of speech Odds ratio State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Statistics Intraclass correlation Speech perception Confidence intervals Blinking (Physiology) Eye movements sug: subj: Task performance Confidence Anxiety Sound recordings Communication Imagination College students Computer, computer peripheral and pre-packaged software merchant wholesalers Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers Computer and software stores Software publishers (except video game publishers) Sound recording merchant wholesalers Record Production Integrated Record Production/Distribution Statistical models Prompts (Psychology) Sound Computer software Data analysis Research funding Selectivity (Psychology) Factorial experiment designs Fatigue (Physiology) Questionnaires Chi-squared test Multivariate analysis Physiological aspects of speech Odds ratio State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Statistics Intraclass correlation Speech perception Confidence intervals Blinking (Physiology) Eye movements ab: Purpose: This study investigated how eye closure (EC) affects vocal expression perception, testing two hypotheses: Hypothesis 1 proposes that EC enhances selective attention to task-related cues while suppressing prosodic processing, predicting higher expressiveness ratings for full (unmodified) versus filtered (acoustically degraded stimuli under eye-closed conditions) stimuli. Hypothesis 2 posits that EC activates compensatory imagination, expecting filtered (semantically neutral) stimuli to elicit higher ratings than full stimuli. Method: Forty listeners completed three tasks: sound verification task (detecting probe sounds), confidence rating task (evaluating listener-perceived confidence levels), and expressiveness rating (assessing emotional expressiveness) under EC and eyes-open (EO) conditions across full and filtered auditory modes. Results: The findings supported Hypothesis 1: EC led to significantly higher confidence and expressiveness ratings than the EO condition. Filtered stimuli received lower ratings than full stimuli across tasks, suggesting that EC enhanced selective attention to vocal prosody without engaging imaginative compensation (Hypothesis 2). Notably, EC did not affect sound verification hit rates, implying that its facilitative effects are more salient in cognitively demanding tasks (e.g., subjective ratings) than basic sound detection. Conclusions: These findings demonstrate that EC enhances vocal perception primarily through selective attention mechanisms, not imagination. The study advances theoretical understanding of EC's role in modulating attentional allocation during vocal processing, while highlighting (a) cognitive effects of shortterm visual deprivation on auditory perception and (b) dynamic cross-modal interactions between visual withdrawal and acoustic cue integration during speech comprehension. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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