Fig. 2.

Listening task and individuals’ performance. (A) The linguistic Posner task with concurrent speech (i.e., cued speech comprehension). Participants listened to two competing dichotomously presented sentences. Each trial started with the visual presentation of a spatial cue. An informative cue provided information about the side (left ear vs. right ear) of the to be probed sentence final word (invoking selective attention). An uninformative cue did not provide information about the side of to be probed sentence final word (invoking divided attention). A semantic cue was visually presented, indicating a general or a specific semantic category for both sentence final words (allowing semantic predictions). At the end of each trial, a visual response array appeared on the left or right side of the screen with four word choices asking the participant to identify the final word of the sentence presented to the left or right ear, depending on the side of the response array. (B) Predictions from linear mixed effects models. Scattered data points (n = 49) represent trial-averaged predictions derived from the model. Black points and vertical lines show mean ± bootstrapped 95% CI. OR is the odds ratio parameter estimate resulting from generalized linear mixed effects models; β is the slope parameter estimate resulting from general linear mixed effects models.