Speech Perception

@article{Poeppel2019SpeechP,
  title={Speech Perception},
  author={David Poeppel and Philip J. Monahan},
  journal={Current Directions in Psychological Science},
  year={2019},
  volume={17},
  pages={80 - 85}
}
Speech perception includes, minimally, the set of computations that transform continuously varying acoustic signals into linguistic representations that can be used for subsequent processing. The auditory and motor subroutines of this complex perceptual process are executed in a network of brain areas organized in ventral and dorsal parallel pathways, performing sound-to-meaning and sound-to-motor mappings, respectively. Research on speech using neurobiological techniques argues against narrow… 
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