Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition

Jelena Mirkovic editor Gareth Gaskell editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:5th Oct '16

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Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition features contributions from the field’s leading scientists, and covers recent developments and current issues in the study of cognitive and neural mechanisms that take patterns of air vibrations and turn them ‘magically’ into meaning. The volume makes a unique theoretical contribution in linking behavioural and cognitive neuroscience research, and cutting across traditional strands of study, such as adult and developmental processing.

The book:

  • Focusses on the state of the art in the study of speech perception and spoken word recognition

  • Discusses the interplay between behavioural and cognitive neuroscience evidence, and between adult and developmental research

  • Evaluates key theories in the field and relates them to recent empirical advances, including the relationship between speech perception and speech production, meaning representation and real-time activation, and bilingual and monolingual spoken word recognition

  • Examines emerging areas of study such as word learning and time-course of memory consolidation, and how the science of human speech perception can help computer speech recognition

Overall this book presents a renewed focus on theoretical and developmental issues, as well as a multifaceted and broad review of the state of research, in speech perception and spoken word recognition. Particularly interested readers will be researchers of psycholinguistics and adjoining fields as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

'I think it's an absolutely top-notch proposal and we should definitely say yes. I know Gareth well, and he's a world expert and big name in the area, so we're lucky to have him.' - Trevor Harley, Series Editor

'The list of proposed contributors (the majority of whom have agreed to contribute) is outstanding. I expect it would be a well-used library book.’ - Jeffrey Bowers, Professor of Psychology, University of Bristol, UK

‘I think that the chapters in the proposed volume are very likely to succeed in presenting a new synthesis of recent behavioural and cognitive neuroscience research on speech perception and spoken word recognition. […] The current proposal is interesting, exciting and original.’ - Matt Davis, Programme Leader – Hearing, Speech and Language, University of Cambridge, UK

ISBN: 9781848724396

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 430g

206 pages