Accounting for rate-dependent category boundary shifts in speech perception

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 333-343

  Bosker, Hans Rutger ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Durational contrast; Neural entrainment; Rate normalization; Rate dependent perception; Speech rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84987624392     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-016-1206-4     Document Type: Article

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