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What can auditory neuroethology tell us about speech processing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

David R. Moore
Affiliation:
University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford OX1 3PT, United Kingdom [email protected] www.physiol.ox.ac.uk
Andrew J. King
Affiliation:
University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford OX1 3PT, United Kingdom [email protected] www.physiol.ox.ac.uk

Abstract

A systematic relationship between the acoustic structure and phonemic content of speech raises the possibility that processing strategies similar to those described in animals with highly specialized hearing may also operate in the human brain. This idea could be tested by analyzing animal communication calls into locus equations and using those as stimulus tools in neurophysiological studies of auditory neurons.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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