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Speech and Voice Perception: Beyond Pattern Recognition

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From the viewpoint of psychology, perception is the function by which an organism gains knowledge of its environment. Equivalently, perception is the function by which sensory information is transformed into meaningful elements. In other words perception makes use of two different logics : the logic of the physical world, from which the organism extracts the information it needs by means of specialized captors, and the logic of cognition, where information is structured in the form of abstract knowledge.

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    Jean-Sylvain Liénard

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Liénard, JS. (1999). Speech and Voice Perception: Beyond Pattern Recognition. In: Chollet, G., Di Benedetto, M.G., Esposito, A., Marinaro, M. (eds) Speech Processing, Recognition and Artificial Neural Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0845-0_4

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