title: Perception of speech sounds with alternate formants presented to opposite ears.
abstract: The perception of speech syllables with alternate formants presented to opposite ears has been investigated. Using synthesized speech and normal-hearing subjects, it was found that this mode of presentation reduced the recognition scores with stop consonants by about 6%, semivowels by about 4%, and fricatives by about 5%, compared with binaural presentation. Vowel recognition, on the other hand, was not significantly reduced.
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*