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Trading Relations, Acoustic Cue Integration, and Context Effects in Speech Perception

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The Psychophysics of Speech Perception

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASID,volume 39))

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The study of speech perception differs in several very important ways from the study of general auditory perception. First, the signals typically used to study the functioning of the auditory system have been simple, discrete and well defined mathematically. Moreover, they typically vary along one perceptually relevant dimension. In contrast, speech sounds involve very complex spectral relations that typically vary quite rapidly as a function of time. Changes that occur in a single perceptual dimension almost always affect the perception of other attributes of the signal. Second, most of the basic research on auditory perception over the last four decades has been concerned with problems surrounding the discriminative capacities of the sensory transducer and the functioning of the peripheral auditory mechanisms. In the perception of complex sound patterns such as speech, the relevant mechanisms are, for the most part, quite centrally located. Moreover, while many experiments in auditory perception, and sensory psychophysics have commonly focused on experimental tasks involving discrimination of both spectral and temporal properties of auditory signals, such tasks are often inappropriate for the study of more complex signals including speech.

This research was supported, in part, by NIH research grant NS-12179 to Indiana University in Bloomington

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Pisoni, D.B., Luce, P.A. (1987). Trading Relations, Acoustic Cue Integration, and Context Effects in Speech Perception. In: Schouten, M.E.H. (eds) The Psychophysics of Speech Perception. NATO ASI Series, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3629-4_11

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