Speech Perception & Production Books

New and Published Books

1. The Auditory Cortex

   A Synthesis of Human and Animal Research

   Edited by Peter Heil, Henning Scheich, Eike Budinger, Reinhard Konig

   Understanding human hearing is not only a scientific challenge but also a problem of growing social and political importance, given the steadily increasing numbers of people with hearing deficits or even deafness. This book is about the highest level of hearing in humans and other mammals. It...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. The Intelligent Ear

   On the Nature of Sound Perception

   By Reinier Plomp

   Plomp's Aspects of Tone Sensation--published 25 years ago--dealt with the psychophysics of simple and complex tones. Since that time, auditory perception as a field of study has undergone a radical metamorphosis. Technical and methodological innovations, as well as a considerable increase in...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
3. Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions

   Explorations in Behaviour and Neuroscience

   Edited by Sven Mattys, Ann Bradlow, Matthew Davis, Sophie Scott

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Speech recognition in ‘adverse conditions’ has been a familiar area of research in computer science, engineering, and hearing sciences for several decades. In contrast, most psycholinguistic theories of speech recognition are built upon evidence gathered from tasks performed by healthy listeners on...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Psychology Press
4. Stuttering and Cluttering

   Frameworks for Understanding and Treatment

   By David Ward

   Stuttering and Cluttering provides a comprehensive overview of both theoretical and treatment aspects of disorders of fluency: stuttering (also known as stammering) and the lesser-known cluttering. The book demonstrates how treatment strategies relate to the various theories as to why stuttering...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
5. Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Duane G. Watson, Michael Wagner, Edward Gibson

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Prosody is the rhythm, stress and intonation of speech, which encodes information that is not encoded by the syntax or words of an utterance. Prosody is critical for parsing speech, constructing syntactic structure, and building a representation of the conversational discourse model, among other...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Psychology Press
6. Modelling Word Recognition and Reading Aloud

   A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   Edited by Johannes C. Ziegler, Jonathan Grainger, Marc Brysbaert

   Series: Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   Computational modeling has tremendously advanced our understanding of the processes involved in normal and impaired reading. While previous research has mainly focused on simulating reading aloud of monosyllabic words in English, the present special issue highlights some new directions in the field...

   Published August 25th 2010 by Psychology Press
7. Speech Accompanying-Gesture

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Sotaro Kita

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   When we speak, we often spontaneously produce gestures. Such gestures are an integral part of face-to-face verbal communication. The relationship between speech and gesture is the theme of this Special Issue. The articles cover a wide range of issues: cultural differences, language and gesture...

   Published January 21st 2009 by Psychology Press
8. The Syllable in Speech Production

   Perspectives on the Frame Content Theory

   Edited by Barbara L. Davis, Krisztina Zajdo

   As a testament to the scope of Peter MacNeilage’s scholarly work across his 40 year career, contributions to this tribute volume represent a broad spectrum of the seminal issues addressed by phonetic and evolutionary science over a number of years. Approaches to the problems raised by attempting to...

   Published February 7th 2008 by Taylor & Francis
9. Speech Production

   Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques

   Edited by Jonathan Harrington, Marija Tabain

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes and Techniques brings together researchers from many different disciplines - computer science, dentistry, engineering, linguistics, phonetics, physiology, psychology - all with a special interest in how speech is produced. From the initial neural...

   Published April 30th 2006 by Psychology Press
10. Listening to Speech

    An Auditory Perspective

    Edited by Steven Greenberg, William Ainsworth

    The human species is largely defined by its use of spoken language, so integral is speech communication to behavior and social interaction. Despite its importance in everyday life, comparatively little is known about the auditory mechanisms that underlie the ability to understand language. The...

    Published March 14th 2006 by Psychology Press