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🗣️ Spoken Word Recognition: Cohort Competition (2D)

Interactive activation model of spoken word recognition. Phonemes arrive one at a time and 30 candidate words compete through lateral inhibition; see how noise, divided attention, working memory, word frequency and context priming move the recognition point.

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Interactive activation model of spoken word recognition. Phonemes arrive one at a time and 30 candidate words compete through lateral inhibition; see how noise, divided attention, working memory, word frequency and context priming move the recognition point.

psycholinguisticsword recognitioncohort modelinteractive activationattentionworking memory

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