Temporal integration in vowel perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1704-1711

  Wallace, Andrew B ^a   Blumstein, Sheila E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CHANNELS; AUDITORY REPRESENTATIONS; LEVEL PROCESS; LEVELS OF ANALYSIS; PRIMING EFFECTS; PSYCHOACOUSTIC RESEARCHES; SENSORY INPUTS; SPEECH STIMULUS; TEMPORAL INTEGRATIONS; TEMPORAL WINDOWS; VOWEL PERCEPTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; WINDOWS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 62249171288     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3077219     Document Type: Article

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