The perceptual system does not process continuous sensory input equally at all times: some elements of the input are more attended than others (Landau & Fries, 2012). Attention samples the continuously changing environment in discrete chunks, which correspond to the periods of neural oscillations in the 4-8 Hz frequency band (VanRullen, 2018). Perception thus operates on these chunks of sensory information, while the phase of neural oscillations modulates attentional intensity, and thus the probability of perceiving a certain element in the environment.The central (Doelling et al., 2014;Ghitza, 2013) and peripheral (Greenberg & Ainsworth, 2004) auditory neural systems are also sensitive to rhythmic patterns in the environment. This sensitivity plays an important role in processing

This repetition priming study examined how word accentual variation in French is represented and processed during spoken word recognition. Mismatched primes in the accentual pattern were less effective than matched primes in facilitating target word recognition when the targets were presented in the left ear but not in the right ear. This indicates that in French, the accentual pattern of words influences their recognition when processing is constrained in the right hemisphere. This study pleads in favor of two memory systems, the one retaining words in an abstract format and the other retaining words in their various forms.

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