September 10, 2025The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Decoding ambiguity: Behavioral insights into contextual priors in auditory perception

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Ambiguous sounds were misidentified when paired with mismatched visual cues, highlighting the influence of contextual priors.
In the experiments, non-ambiguous sounds showed consistent identification regardless of the visual context, revealing a difference in processing.
Participants experienced auditory stimuli in a priming paradigm with visual cues, demonstrating how context affects perception.
The study suggests that understanding the neural dynamics of auditory perception requires consideration of contextual influences.

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Two online experiments reveal that contextual cues impact the interpretation of ambiguous sounds in humans, indicating the importance of prior experiences in sensory processing.

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Kumar et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c2416eb210217d6479f59f https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0037596

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Two online experiments reveal that contextual cues impact the interpretation of ambiguous sounds in humans, indicating the importance of prior experiences in sensory processing.

Decoding ambiguity: Behavioral insights into contextual priors in auditory perception

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Decoding ambiguity: Behavioral insights into contextual priors in auditory perception

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