Speech perception as an active cognitive process

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Heald, Shannon L M ^a   Nusbaum, Howard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Active processing; Attention; Learning; Passive processing; Perception; Speech; Theories of speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MECHANICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84896939794     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00035     Document Type: Article

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