What Information Is Necessary for Speech Categorization? Harnessing Variability in the Speech Signal by Integrating Cues Computed Relative to Expectations

Psychological Review

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-246

  McMurray, Bob ^a   Jongman, Allard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Compensation; Cue integration; Fricatives; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955084434     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022325     Document Type: Article

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