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Multiple Book Review of Speech perception by ear and eye: A paradigm for psychological inquiry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Dominic W. Massaro
Affiliation:
Program in Experimental Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, Electronic mail: psych36@d.ucsc.edu

Abstract

This book is about the processing of information in face-to-face communication when a speaker makes both audible and visible information available to a perceiver. Both auditory and visual sources of information are evaluated and integrated to achieve speech perception. The evaluation of the information source provides information about the strength of alternative interpretations, rather than just all-or-none categorical information, as claimed by “categorical perception” theory. Information sources are evaluated independently; the integration process insures that the least ambiguous sources have the most influences on the judgment. Similar processes occur in a variety of other behaviors, ranging from personality judgments and categorization to sentence interpretation and decision making. The experimental results are consistent with a fuzzy logical model of perception, positing three operations in perceptual (primary) recognition: feature evaluation, feature integration, and pattern classification. Continuously valued features are first evaluated, then integrated and matched against prototype descriptions in memory; finally, an identification decision is made on the basis of the relative goodness-of-match of the stimulus information with the relevant prototype descriptions.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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