Mismatch evoked responses to categories in speech perception

Speech perception involves categorization operations in which acoustic events that compose the speech stream are grouped into equivalence classes, i. e., categories whose members are treated by speakers as functionally equivalent. Several lines of evidence indicate effects of speech sound categories...

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Autores: Silva, Daniel Márcio Rodrigues, Rothe-Neves, Rui
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Letras de Hoje (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/14822
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/14822
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mismatch negativity (MMN)
Evoked potentials
Evoked fields
Speech perception
Categorization.
Negatividade de incongruência (MMN)
Potenciais evocados
Campos magnéticos evocados
Percepção da fala
Categorização.
Psicolinguística
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Sumario:Speech perception involves categorization operations in which acoustic events that compose the speech stream are grouped into equivalence classes, i. e., categories whose members are treated by speakers as functionally equivalent. Several lines of evidence indicate effects of speech sound categories on perception. In this context, measures of neural activity related to perceptual processing at the level of the cerebral cortex are of great relevance. Psychophysiological studies show that the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) component of the auditory evoked responses, which has been regarded as an index of auditory sensory memoryand discrimination, is sensitive not only to the physical attributes of the speech sounds but also to the way those sounds are categorized by the speakers of a language. The present work offers a critical retrospective review of the use of the MMN response in research on speech sound categorization and an appreciation of its contributions to the comprehension of the perceptual aspects of speech communication.