Speech perception

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 49-72

  Samuel, Arthur G ^a,b,c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

auditory language; spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650986991     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.121208.131643     Document Type: Article

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