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Abstract
Phonemic restoration is a powerful auditory illusion. When part of an utterance is replaced by another sound (e.g. white noise), listeners report that the utterance sounds intact-they perceptually restore the missing speech. Several paradigms have been used to measure this illusion, and to explore its bottom-up and top-down bases. These studies have shown that acoustic properties of the replacement sound (especially its psychoacoustic match to the speech it replaced) strongly affect the illusion. The effect also depends on listener-based factors, such as the amount of lexical activation of the tested word. The current report summarises the results of the restoration literature.
