PSYC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cochlea, Signify, Basilar Membrane
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Challenging from just the vibration of the basilar membrane to figure out what kind of stream you are listening to. Environment has many sound sources, key thing to do anything is to be able to separate out diff. streams, so that we can tune into one stream and potentially disregard others and know that the info. Coming in is coming from one source- listening to friend, not distracted by other voices around you with similar frequencies and rythym to them. Today- speech perception and what a challenge it is. People pronounce the exam same word differently- said the same word twice, even you would not say it the same way. Diff people have diff. voices. - diff. frequency emissions in your voice, females have higher pitch voices. Some noise in your production of words that makes each time diff. Regardless of voice and accent, we can understand- people will intonate words to convey meaning.