Figure 1.

(A) Three different versions of each critical auditory target (in this example, the stimulus peacock) were used in this experiment. In shortened tokens, the middle 2/3 of the VOT was excised, and in lengthened tokens, the middle 2/3 of the VOT was reduplicated. (B) A behavioral pretest indicated that while participants correctly recognized all critical tokens as voiceless, they were significantly slower to categorize modified tokens as voiceless relative to unaltered tokens. Error bars indicate standard error of the mean, and the asterisk (*) indicates a significant difference based on Newman-Keuls post-hoc tests. (C) A sample set of displays corresponding to the peacock-beaker-sausage triad, with auditory targets circled in red. On critical trials, the voiceless item served as the auditory target. On non-critical trials, a voiceless item from a different triad (e.g., peanut) served as the distractor picture to avoid repetition of visual displays. (D) Schematic of the timing for the fMRI eye tracking experiment.