BCS 111 Chapter 11: Textbook Reading 11

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Course: BCS 111
• Professor: Yang

Document Summary

We might think that we perceive speech in the same way we perceive written text, but this is not true. There are rarely pauses around each sounds and different sounds from the same word blend together. A single phoneme sounds different depending on the context . like how the d in. Dog , deep , and do are not the same sound. We also make use of visual information in the perception of speech . like the mcgurk effect . visual cues affect how sounds are perceived. Phoneme restoration effect: like if there"s a missing sound in a word that we know should be there, our brain kind of hears it anyway because we know that"s how it"s supposed to be. Examples of speech errors: substitution of one letter for another, shift of a letter, exchange of sounds, and exchange of words and morphemes. Word substitution: either errors that show meaning relations (like using finger instead of.