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- Title
Acoustic-Phonetic Approach toward Understanding Neural Processes and Speech Perception.
- Authors
Koch, Dawn Burton; McGee, Therese J.; Bradlow, Ann R.; Kraus, Nina
- Abstract
This review paper describes an 'acoustic-phonetic' experimental approach aimed at understanding normal and abnormal speech perception processes from both a behavioral and an electrophysiologic perspective. First, we consider the relevant acoustic characteristics of speech and identify a set of acoustic-phonetic classes that represent the parameters most important for making an acoustic signal sound like speech. Second, we review what is known about the neurophysiologic representation of acoustic-phonetic speech parameters in animal and human subjects. Third, we describe how an acoustic-phonetic approach has been useful in understanding the biologic basis of some auditory learning problems in children and in characterizing the behavioral and neurophysiologic changes resulting from speech-sound training. Finally, we discuss these findings and how they may expand the diagnostic and rehabilitative repertoire of practicing audiologists.
- Subjects
SPEECH perception; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; HEARING impaired children
- Publication
Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 1999, Vol 10, Issue 6
- ISSN
1050-0545
- Publication type
Article