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Bottoms up! How top-down pitfalls ensnare speech perception researchers, too

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Anne Cutler  and
Dennis Norris
Anne Cutler
Affiliation:
The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South, NSW 2751, Australia a.cutler@westernsydney.edu.au www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/our_team/researchers/professor_anne_cutler
Dennis Norris
Affiliation:
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdom. dennis.norris@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/dennis.norris
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Abstract

Not only can the pitfalls that Firestone & Scholl (F&S) identify be generalised across multiple studies within the field of visual perception, but also they have general application outside the field wherever perceptual and cognitive processing are compared. We call attention to the widespread susceptibility of research on the perception of speech to versions of the same pitfalls.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e236
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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