Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias

Disfluency Disrupts the Confirmation Bias: When Changing the Font Changes Your Mind by Jorge

Processing of Stuttered Speech by Fluent Listeners

Filled pause disfluencies (e.g., uh) elicit a disfluency bias in listeners: listeners predict that a speaker will name an unfamiliar object, versus a familiar one, when both are equally plausible referents. When listeners receive speaker-specific information indicating that disfluency is not reliably tied to word familiarity, the disfluency bias can be suspended. The first aim of this study was...

Comparing Human and Automatic Speech Recognition Using Word Gating

This paper describes a study in which we compare human and automatic recognition of words in fluent and disfluent spontaneous speech. In a word-level gating study with confidence judgements, we examine how the recognition and confidence of recognition of words by humans develops over utterances and show how disfluency disrupts the process. We give an automatic recogniser the same task and compa...

The role of attribution in the effect of disfluency on comprehension

Reference comprehension is influenced by disfluency; listeners are biased toward given (already mentioned) objects when the speaker is fluent ("the candle), and new objects when the speaker is disfluent ("thee uh candle"; Arnold et al., 2004). One interpretation is that listeners attribute disfluency to a particular difficulty, e.g., naming difficult-to-name objects, like new objects. We establ...

Fluency and belief bias in deductive reasoning: new indices for old effects

Models based on signal detection theory (SDT) have occupied a prominent role in domains such as perception, categorization, and memory. Recent work by Dube et al. (2010) suggests that the framework may also offer important insights in the domain of deductive reasoning. Belief bias in reasoning has traditionally been examined using indices based on raw endorsement rates-indices that critics have...