title: Speech perception: a language-trained chimpanzee weighs in.
abstract: A language-trained chimpanzee is able to interpret synthetic 'auditory caricatures' as speech. Important components of human speech perception thus rely upon general auditory mechanisms that predated the evolution of spoken language.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, 14 Althanstrasse, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. tecumseh.fitch@univie.ac.at
authors.forename: W Tecumseh
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Fitch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception