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Levels of Representation of Phonemes and Bandwidth of Spectral-Temporal Integration

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Studies on the psychophysics of speech perception seek to discover correlations between performance in psychoacoustic tests using simple stimuli, and performance on speech tests. Such correlations may be numerical (e.g., Moore and Glasberg, this volume) or qualitative (e.g., the demonstration that “categorical perception” can be observed in both speech and psychoacoustic tests). A third group of studies correlates the output of a psychoacoustic model of auditory processing with human speech perception (e.g., Zwicker et al., 1979).

Preparation of this manuscript was supported in part by NIH and AFOSR grants to Indiana University. I thank Dr. Charles S. Watson for many stimulating discussions on several of the issues addressed in this paper. Dr. Gary Kidd provided valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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Espinoza-Varas, B. (1987). Levels of Representation of Phonemes and Bandwidth of Spectral-Temporal Integration. In: Schouten, M.E.H. (eds) The Psychophysics of Speech Perception. NATO ASI Series, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3629-4_5

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