The broad aim of our research in speech communication is to gain an understanding of the nature of the processes of human speech production and perception and to learn how these processes are acquired. A practical aim is to utilize knowledge gained through study of speech communication to devise procedures that will permit limited communication between men and machines by means of speech. Sever...

People assume that they perceive the world as it really is. In this article, we review research that questions this assumption and instead suggests that people see what they want to see. We discuss classic and current research demonstrating wishful seeing across two perceptual tasks, showing that people categorize ambiguous visual information and represent their environments in ways that align ...