This chapter focuses on one of the first steps in comprehending spoken language: How do
listeners extract the most fundamental linguistic elements—consonants and vowels, or the …

Lexical information facilitates speech perception, especially when sounds are ambiguous or
degraded. The interactive approach to understanding this effect posits that this facilitation is …

Speech perception (SP) most commonly refers to the perceptual mapping from the highly
variable acoustic speech signal to a linguistic representation, whether it be phonemes, …

The ability to integrate and weight information across dimensions is central to perception and
is particularly important for speech categorization. The present experiments investigate cue …

The discovery of mirror neurons, a class of neurons that respond when a monkey performs
an action and also when the monkey observes others producing the same action, has …

Speech perception is an ecologically important example of the highly context-dependent
nature of perception; adjacent speech, and even nonspeech, sounds influence how listeners …

When members of a series of synthesized stop consonants varying in third-formant (F3)
characteristics and varying perceptually from /da/ to /ga/ are preceded by /al/, human listeners …

Speech processing requires sensitivity to long-term regularities of the native language yet
demands listeners to flexibly adapt to perturbations that arise from talker idiosyncrasies such …

… Holt; The mean matters: Effects of statistically defined nonspeech spectral distributions
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Although speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic dimensions, some are
perceptually weighted more than others and there are residual effects of native‐language …