Several models of information integration are developed and analyzed within the context of
a prototypical pattern-recognition task. The central concerns are whether the models …

The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how we experience qualia
or phenomenal experiences, such as seeing, hearing, and feeling, and knowing what they …

This paper argues that the phonetic interpretation of phonological representations may be
controlled as well as automatic, because contextual variation in the realization of distinctive …

This study used a multi-talker database containing intelligibility scores for 2000 sentences
(20 talkers, 100 sentences), to identify talker-related correlates of speech intelligibility. We …

First published in 1987. This book is about the processing of information. The central domain
of interest is face-to-face communication in which the speaker makes available both audible …

Most theories of categorization emphasize how continuous perceptual information is
mapped to categories. However, equally important are the informational assumptions of a …

German is well known for its neutralization of the voicing contrast in word-final obstruents.
However, acoustic analysis of ten pairs of German words produced by ten native speakers …

In most languages, vowels are longer before voiced than before voiceless consonants.
Attempts to explain this vowel-length difference in terms of assumed physical or …

Chomsky and Halle (1968) and many formal linguists rely on the notion of a universally
available phonetic space defined in discrete time. This assumption plays a central role in …

When listeners process segmentally relevant properties of the speech signal they do so in a
rate-dependent manner. This is seen as a shift in the perceptual category boundary; as rate …