title: Speech perception takes precedence over nonspeech perception.
abstract: Some components of a speech signal, when made more intense, are heard simultaneously as speech and nonspeech--a form of duplex perception. At lower intensities, the speech alone is heard. Such intensity-dependent duplexity implies the existence of a phonetic mode of perception that takes precedence over auditory modes.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception; D010700:Phonetics; D013060:Speech; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013067:Speech Perception