Exploring the Attention Distribution Around Perceptual Boundaries of English Continuous Speech

Enhanced attention at postboundary points implies that event model updating might occur at these points. Thus, the well-established event boundary advantage effect in prior studies may be more closely related to intensified attention at postboundary points. Additionally, the low-low-high attention pattern has the potential to serve as an indicator of normal perceptual segmentation. This finding provides implications for future research on diagnosing atypical populations, such as schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Parkinson's disease, lesions of the prefrontal cortex, and Alzheimer's disease, as these populations often exhibit impaired segmentation abilities.