@article{ref1,
title="Phonological fusion in dichotic monitoring",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="1981",
author="Sexton, M. A. and Geffen, G.",
volume="7",
number="2",
pages="422-429",
abstract="Phonological fusion (e.g., BACK + LACK perceived as BLACK) was examined in a dichotic monitoring task that required subjects to press a button whenever they thought a predesignated target (e.g., BLACK) occurred. Fusion rate was determined from incidental response to fusible pairs in this task. It was found that a voluntary strategy of selective attention to one ear reduced fusion rate. However, fusions could not be entirely eliminated using this strategy. A signal detection analysis indicated that strategy did not involve a response bias shift, although individual differences in fusion rates unimodally distributed) could be partly accounted for by differences in response bias and discriminatory ability. Phenomenological data suggested that a fusible stimulus pair may yield more than one percept on a single presentation, but not necessarily that same percept on repeated presentations. Reaction time data supported the view that phonological fusion involves parallel processing of fusible items in the language-dominant hemisphere.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}