SAGE Journal Articles

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Delphine Dahan 
The Time Course of Interpretation in Speech Comprehension 
Current Directions in Psychological Science April 2010 19: 121-126, doi:10.1177/0963721410364726 

  • What evidence supports the idea that speech is sequentially analyzed?
  • What is a right-to-left vs. left-to-right analysis? How can you determine right versus left context analysis?
  • What is the impact of later-arriving information on word recognition?
  • How can an individual’s choice affect word perception?

Lawrence D. Rosenblum 
Speech Perception as a Multimodal Phenomenon 
Current Directions in Psychological Science December 2008 17: 405-409, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00615.x 

  • What are some examples of visual speech information? How can speech be felt instead of heard?
  • What supports the idea that speech is multimodal? What is amodal or modality neutral speech perception within the scope of multimodal speech perception?
  • How can a speaker affect speech perception? What is cross-modal speaker matching?

David Poeppel and Philip J. Monahan 
Speech Perception: Cognitive Foundations and Cortical Implementation 
Current Directions in Psychological Science April 2008 17: 80-85, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00553.x

  • How does speech perception differ from comprehension?
  • What are the two main shifts of the contemporary approach to how the brain is involved in speech perception?
  • What are the components of the dual-stream model?
  • How are the ventral and dorsal pathways involved in speech perception?
  • What are some major areas of focus that warrant further exploration in the field of speech perception?