On the Process of Speech Perception
- 1 November 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 24 (6), 590-594
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1906938
Abstract
The process of speech perception is analyzed into three main operations: (1) translation of the speech signal into form suitable for the nervous system, (2) identification of discrete speech elements, and (3) comprehension of meaning. The first operation appears to correspond roughly to the transformation made by the sound spectrograph. The second may be carried out by the neural equivalent of a set of matched filters. The third appears to involve a neural form of cross-correlation that exhibits some of the properties of the analogous electronic process.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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