title: Similarities between tactual and auditory speech perception.
abstract: Perception of synthetic speech continua through the sense of touch and audition was compared utilizing a 32-channel spectrally oriented electrocutaneous display and standard auditory psychophysical procedures. Results indicated a close correspondence between tactual and auditory discrimination and identification for a vowel (/a/-/e/) and a consonant (/sta/-/sa/) continuum. These results suggest that at least some aspects of speech perception are amodal.
authors.affiliation: University of Miami, Mailman Center for Child Development, FL 33101.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Eilers
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ozdamar
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Oller
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Miskiel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Urbano
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013067:Speech Perception; D014110:Touch