Integration and Segregation in Speech Perception

Integration and segregation in speech perception.

In this paper I present an overview of some recent research on speech percept.ion. To reduce my task to manageable size, I have chosen to focus on the topics of perceptual integration and segregation, which have guided, more or less explicitly, a considerable amount of speech perception research and t.heorizing in recent years. This will be a selective review, therefore, but I hope it will neve...

Perception of 'speech-and-gesture2 integration

This paper describes two experiments conducted to identify the role of synchronization in the perception of ‘speech and gesture’ communication and to isolate the parameters that determine the perception of temporal alignment. The results of the first experiment show that the synchronization between audio and visual signals determines the felicitousness of a multimodal utterance. With the second...

Integration of featural information in speech perception.

A model for the identification of speech sounds is proposed that assumes that (a) the acoustic cues are perceived independently, (b) feature evaluation provides information about the degree to which each quality is present in the speech sound, (c) each speech sound is denned by a propositional prototype in longterm memory that determines how the featural information is integrated, and (d) the s...

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

Humans ’ multisensory perception , from integration to segregation , follows Bayesian inference