You hear a speaker at a scientific seminar say something that sounds like, "It is easy to wreck a nice beach." You know that the topic of the talk is language comprehension, so you decide that what the speaker really said was, "It is easy to recognize speech." In making this inference, you are primarily employing

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Top-down processing involves using context and prior knowledge to interpret sensory information, which is what you used to infer the intended phrase based on the seminar's topic.

You Hear a Speaker at a Scientific Seminar Say Something