Speech motor control: Acoustic goals, saturation effects, auditory feedback and internal models

Speech Communication

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 227-250

  Perkell, Joseph ^a   Matthies, Melanie ^a   Lane, Harlan ^a   Guenther, Frank ^a   Wilhelms Tricarico, Reiner ^a   Wozniak, Jane ^a   Guiod, Peter ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic goals; Auditory feedback; Cochlear implants; Intelligibility; Internal model; Motor equivalence; Quantal mechanisms; Saturation effects; Speech motor programming

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR NONVOCAL PERSONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSFER FUNCTION; SPEECH MOTOR CONTROL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031200496     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(97)00026-5     Document Type: Article

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