One view of speech perception is that acoustic signals are transformed into representations
for pattern matching to determine linguistic structure. This process can be taken as a …

This paper focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of speech perception: the rapid,
and highly automatic processes by which complex time-varying speech signals are …

Speech perception includes, minimally, the set of computations that transform continuously
varying acoustic signals into linguistic representations that can be used for subsequent …

How do we recognize spoken words? According to what has become the modal view in
speech research (eg, Marslen-Wilson and Welsh, 1978; McClelland and Elman, 1986) …

Of all the signals human auditory cortex has to process, the one with the most compelling
relevance to the listener is arguably speech. Parsing and decoding speech—the conspecific …

The complexities of the acoustic speech signal pose many significant challenges for
listeners. Although perceiving speech begins with auditory processing, investigation of …

One of the most highly developed human abilities is communication by speech. Throughout
the years, research on speech perception has demonstrated that humans are well adapted …

Speech perception involves the integration of sensory input with expectations based on the
context of that speech. Much debate surrounds the issue of whether or not prior knowledge …

Synchronous presentation of stimuli to the auditory and visual systems can modify the
formation of a percept in either modality. For example, perception of auditory speech is …

A striking property of speech perception is its resilience in the face of acoustic variability
(among speech sounds produced by different speakers at different times, for example). The …