Cognitive Science articles from September 2001

Cognitive Science archives from September 2001

New approaches to the neural basis of speech sound processing: introduction to special section on brain and speech.
September 1, 2001... Standard approaches to understanding the neural basis of speech and language have focused on identifying brain areas responsible for very broad aspects of representation and processing. The initial observations by Broca and Wernicke (the left...

Role of left posterior superior temporal gyrus in phonological processing for speech perception and production.
September 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Models of both speech perception and speech production typically postulate a processing level that involves some form of phonological processing, that is, accessing/assembling segmental and syllabic information. There is...

Pure word deafness and the bilateral processing of the speech code.
September 1, 2001... 1. Introduction As is true for the analysis of practically all cognitive systems, research on speech perception illustrates the tension between invoking specialized processing mechanisms and relying on general principles available for...

The role of inferior frontal cortex in phonological processing.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... 1. Introduction With the recent availability of neuroimaging techniques for studying cognitive function, a rapidly growing number of studies are attempting to define the neurobiological underpinnings of language. Two imaging techniques,...

Levels of representation in the electrophysiology of speech perception.
September 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Speech perception involves a mapping from continuous acoustic waveforms onto the discrete phonological units used to store words in the mental lexicon. For example, when we hear the word cat, we map a complex and continuous...

Visualizing the emergent structure of children's mathematical argument.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Although mathematics is often viewed as the discovery of pre-existing structure, an alternative perspective is that mathematics develops within a history of collective argument and inscription (Davis & Hersch, 1981; Kline,...

The bicoherence theory of situational irony.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... 1. Introduction When someone says that they find a situation ironic, they mean that their conception of it defies the normal way in which situations fit with their repertoire of concepts, that this misfit is noteworthy in some way, that it...

Classifying adults' and children's faces by sex: computational investigations of subcategorical feature encoding.
September 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Adults, children, and infants discriminate between male and female faces quickly and accurately, (e.g., Burton, Bruce & Dench, 1993; Fagot & Leinbach, 1993; Intons-Peterson, 1988). Our ability to categorize faces by sex is...