How do listeners understand what they are hearing? Humans hearing speech perform
spoken word recognition, recognizing what words they are hearing in a speech stream in …

The study of speech perception investigates how we are able to identify in the human voice
the meaningful patterns that define spoken language. Research in this area has tended to …

Publisher Summary Spoken word recognition is a distinct subsystem providing the interface
among low-level perception and cognitive processes of retrieval, parsing, and interpretation …

This paper reports the results of three projects concerned with auditory word recognition and
the structure of the lexicon. The first project was designed to experimentally test several …

Spoken word recognition is the study of how lexical representations are accessed from
phonological patterns in the speech signal. That is, we conventionally make two simplifying …

The primary objective of any model of spoken-word recognition is to explain how a listener is
able to access the information stored in the mental lexicon on the basis of an acoustic signal …

Evidence suggests that word recognition depends on numerous talker-, listener-, and
stimulus-related characteristics. The current study examined the effects of talker variability …

The customary approaches to research on human speechreading are to study phonetic
perception with identification of phonemes in nonsense syllables, and to study perception of …

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies mental representations and
the processes involved in the acquisition, long-term storage, retrieval, and other …

The goal of speech perception is understanding a speaker's message. To achieve this,
listeners must recognize the words that comprise a spoken utterance. This in turn implies …