The Psychophysics of Speech Perception

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Relevance of Psychophysics for Speech Perception

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Role of Psychophysics in Understanding Speech Perception

      • Bruno H. Repp

      Pages 3-27

   3. Central and Peripheral Processes in the Perception of Speech and Nonspeech Sounds

      • Neil A. Macmillan, Louis D. Braida, Rina F. Goldberg

      Pages 28-45

   4. Psychophysics versus Specialized Processes in Speech Perception: An Alternative Perspective

      • Dominic W. Massaro

      Pages 46-65

   5. Speech Perception and the Role of Long-Term Memory

      • M. E. H. Schouten

      Pages 66-79

   6. Levels of Representation of Phonemes and Bandwidth of Spectral-Temporal Integration

      • B. Espinoza-Varas

      Pages 80-90

3. Back Matter

   Pages 91-92

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4. Separation of Acoustic Events

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. The Meaning of Duplex Perception: Sounds as Transparent Objects

      • Albert S. Bregman

      Pages 95-111

   3. Perceptual Separation of Speech from Concurrent Sounds

      • C. J. Darwin, Roy B. Gardner

      Pages 112-124

   4. Sound Separation and Auditory Perceptual Organization

      • Mitchel Weintraub

      Pages 125-134

   5. On the Significance of Spectral Synchrony for Signal Detection

      • T. Houtgast

      Pages 135-139

   6. Auditory Enhancement in Speech Perception

      • Quentin Summerfield, Peter Assmann

      Pages 140-150

5. Back Matter

   Pages 151-152

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6. Dynamic Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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

      • D. B. Pisoni, P. A. Luce

      Pages 155-172

   3. Perceptual Integration of Rise Time and Silence in Affricate/Fricative and Pluck/Bow Continua

      • Peter Howell, Stuart Rosen

      Pages 173-180

   4. Reversal of the Rise-Time Cue in the Affricate-Fricative Contrast: An Experiment on the Silence of Sound

      • Vincent J. van Heuven

      Pages 181-187

   5. Possible Acoustic Bases for the Perception of Voicing Contrasts

      • Richard E. Pastore

      Pages 188-198

The following is a passage from our application for NATO­ sponsorship: "In the main, the participants in this workshop on the Psychophysics of Speech Perception come from two areas of research: - one area is that of speech perception researc,h, in which the perception of speech sounds is investigated; - the other area is that of psychoacoustics, or auditory psychophysics, in which the perception of simple non-speech sounds, such as pure tones or noise bursts, is investigated, in order to determine the properties of the hearing mechanism. Al though there is widespread agreement among both speech researchers and auditory psychophysicists that there should be a great deal of co-operation between them, the two areas have, generally speaking, remained separate, each with its own research questions, paradigms, and above all, traditions. Psychoacousticians have, so far, continued to investigate the peripheral hearing organ by means of simple sounds, regarding the preoccupations of speech researchers as too many near-empty theories in need of a more solid factual base. Speech perception researchers, on the other hand, have continued to investigate the way human listeners classify vowels and consonants, claiming that psychoacoustics is not concerned with normal, everyday, human perception.

• Klang
• Phonem
• memory
• perception
• psychophysics
• speech processing

• Institute of Phonetics, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  M. E. H. Schouten

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