Lecture 10- Cognitive Models Of Speech Production

Question 1

What are the 2 components of motor theory of speech

Answer 1

-Speech perception is the result of a specialised speech module that is separate from the mechanism used for perceiving non-speech sounds
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Question 2

What is the McGurk effect

Answer 2

Visual context can impact sound perception

Question 3

What is the ganong effect

Answer 3

Lexical context to perceiving words (eg more likely to hear a real word than a fake one)

Question 4

Speech sounds are perceived in a

Answer 4

Categorical fashion even if they are acoustically ambiguous

Question 5

Speech perception is strongly influenced by the

Answer 5

Context in which they are heard

Question 6

What does motor theory believe happens when you hear a sound

Answer 6

Your mind imagines how the sound is produced from the speaker

Question 7

Passive listening to meaningless monosyllables activates

Answer 7

Auditory cortex, motor and premotor areas

Question 8

Applying TMS over premotor areas interferes with

Answer 8

Phoneme discrimination in noise but not colour discrimination

Question 9

Categorical perception can also be demonstrated for

Answer 9

Non-speech sounds,

Evidence against motor theory