Abstract
Sixty-nine introductory psychology students participated in a phonemic restoration (PHR) experiment. PHR is the illusory perception of a phoneme deleted from a spoken sentence when that phoneme is replaced by an extraneous sound. Contrary to previous results, it was found that PHRs were significantly more prevalent when a cough was substituted, than when a tone replaced the deleted speech sound (p <.05). The study also revealed a decreasing tendency across trials to mislocalize the extraneous cough or tone prior to its veridical location when expectancy of stimulus position was minimized. The theoretical import of this latter finding is discussed, as is a methodological problem common to all PHR research and its possible effect on the percentage of PHRs reported.
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