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SUBMITTER: Toscano JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3523688 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Toscano Joseph C JC McMurray Bob B Dennhardt Joel J Luck Steven J SJ
Psychological science 20101008 10
Speech sounds are highly variable, yet listeners readily extract information from them and transform continuous acoustic signals into meaningful categories during language comprehension. A central question is whether perceptual encoding captures acoustic detail in a one-to-one fashion or whether it is affected by phonological categories. We addressed this question in an event-related potential (ERP) experiment in which listeners categorized spoken words that varied along a continuous acoustic di ...[more]