Perceptual Requirements for Organizing and Analyzing Speech

Explore the fundamental perceptual mechanisms required for organizing and analyzing speech in this comprehensive lecture by Robert E. Remez from the Center for Language & Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University. Delve into the cognitive and perceptual processes that enable humans to parse continuous speech signals into meaningful linguistic units, examining how the auditory system organizes acoustic information and the neural requirements for speech analysis. Learn about the theoretical frameworks and experimental findings that illuminate how listeners segment speech streams, recognize phonetic patterns, and extract linguistic meaning from complex acoustic signals. Investigate the perceptual constraints and capabilities that shape speech processing, including temporal integration, spectral analysis, and the role of top-down processing in speech perception. Gain insights into the interdisciplinary research connecting psychoacoustics, cognitive psychology, and speech science to understand how the human perceptual system accomplishes the remarkable feat of speech comprehension in real-time listening conditions.