PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Pacifier, Dyslexia, Mental Model

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Recognizing audible sounds is recognizing the patterns underlying speech not just the sounds. Using fmri, found some regions of brain responded more when hearing human vocalization than only natural sounds. When analyzing detailed information of speech, left hemisphere plays bigger role. Analysis of speech begins with phonemes: minimum unit of sound that conveys meaning. Voice onset time: delay between initial sound of a consonant and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords. Is one distinction of phonemes we can detect, allows for us to distinguish between p and b. Delay between p and ah in pa is 0. 06seconds. Ganong perception of phoneme affected by what follow it. Computer sound between g and k perceived as g or k if followed by ift or iss. We recognize sounds in larger pieces than phonemes (morphemes smallest unit of meaning in language) Recognition of words in continuous speech: the importance of learning and context.

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