What can auditory neuroethology tell us about speech processing?

Author(s): King, A. J.

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1998; 21: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Cambridge Univ Press. 276.

Abstract: A systematic relationship between the acoustic structure and phonemic content of speech raises the possibility that processing strategies similar to those described in animals with highly specialized hearing may also operate in die human brain. This idea could be tested by analyzing animal communication calls into locus equations and using those as stimulus tools in neurophysiological studies of auditory neurons.

Note: Editorial Moore DR, Univ Oxford, Physiol Lab, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PT, ENGLAND

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