How the Brain Perceives Speech

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How the Brain Perceives Speech Add Student’s Name Add Course Name Add Professor’s Name Add Date Table of Contents How the brain perceives speech; A paper on the physiological and psychological attributes of Speech perception 1 1.0 Abstract 3 2.0 Introduction 3 3.0 Human Ear and Auditory Processing 4 4.0 Speech Perception; the phonological aspects 7 4.1 Acoustic cues 7 4.2 Linearity and Segmentation Defect 8 4.3 Constancy and Normalization 8 5.0 Psychological aspects of Speech perception 9 5.1 Top-down influences 9 5.2 Second Language or Foreign Language speech perception 10 5.3 Speech Perception in infants 11 6.0 Conclusion 11 7.0 References 12 Abstract This paper is a brief inquiry into speech perception in humans with an approach that incorporates the physiological as well as the psychological aspects of speech perception. Throughout this paper various concepts involved in speech perception as evident from scientific as well as language studies and researches have been elaborated in order to understand the topic better. Lastly this paper also appeals for more and more research to be done in speech perception by human brain as it has got vast scope as well as benefits intended for hearing impaired persons as well as for technology advancements. Introduction Incredibly the human brain is endowed with the innate ability to control human behavior. Ipso-facto human brain is the primary source of human behavior. Under this broad domain of human behavior, speech perception is a part. The whole process of speech perception involves many complex aspects and this paper is partly an attempt to understand speech perception in terms of its physiological and psychological attributes. The hearing process is controlled by human ear which is also a complex organ; the auditory information captured by the human ear is delivered

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