Listening for the norm: Adaptive coding in speech categorization

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Jingyuan ^a   Holt, Lori L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

LTAS; Speech perception; Talker normalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867081043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00010     Document Type: Article

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