Research Catalog

Title

Perceiving talking faces : from speech perception to a behavioral principle / Dominic W. Massaro.

Author

Massaro, Dominic W.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xii, 494 pages : illustrations; 27 cm +

Summary

• Pattern recognition is deemed central to cognition. It appears to follow an optimal algorithm in a wide variety of behaviors and situations. Perceiving Talking Faces proposes an invariant law of pattern recognition to describe how multiple sources of continuously perceived information, such as auditory and visual speech input, are processed to achieve perception of a category.
• The book details the author's extensive series of experiments on the use of multiple cues in speech perception and other domains, and unifies the results under the fuzzy logical model of perception. It presents a blend of empirical results, theory, and mathematical model testing. The author's underlying purpose is to describe and defend a universal principle of psychological theory.

Series Statement

MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology

Uniform Title

MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology.

Subjects

• Speech perception
• Speech Perception

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-473) and indexes.

System Details (note)

• Systems requirements: Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT

Contents

I. Perceiving Talking Faces. 1. Bimodal Speech Perception. 2. Speech as Pattern Recognition. 3. Perceptual Events and Time. 4. A Universal Law -- II. Broadening the Domain. 5. Individual Variability. 6. Ecological Variability. 7. Emotion in the Face. 8. Emotion from the Face and the Voice -- III. Broadening the Framework. 9. Broadening the Model. 10. Broadening the Tests. 11. Addressing Critiques -- IV. Creating Talking Faces / Dominic W. Massaro, Michael M. Cohen and Michael A. Berger. 12. Synthesizing Talking Faces. 13. Evaluating Talking Faces. 14. Applying Talking Faces. Appendix: CD-ROM Selections / Dominic W. Massaro and Michael M. Cohen.

ISBN

0262133377 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

97001575

OCLC

ocm36315843

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries