Introduction: The gating task demonstrates the effect of context on spoken word recognition. You will hear increasingly longer fragments of a word, either in a sentence or on its own. You should try to recognize what the gated word is. Then choose a value on the rating scale for how confident you were with your identification of the word. You will find that you are quicker to recognize the gated word when it is in a sentence compared to when it is in isolation. You will also find that you are quicker to recognize a gated word late in a sentence, especially a long sentence, because the grammar and meaning of the early part of the sentence limit the number of possible solutions. Lastly, you may notice that your confidence ratings sometimes do not correspond to the point at which you correctly identified the word. That is because the isolation point can be reached, whether or not you are confident in your choice.