speech perception

the process in which a listener decodes, combines, and converts an incoming stream of otherwise meaningless sound created by the speech production process into a meaningful sequence and phonological representation.

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May 9th 2024

Estes–Skinner procedure

another name for conditioned suppression. [after William K. Estes and B. F. Skinner, who developed the technique in 1941]