Processing neighbors in speech perception and production

This is a current project.

Description

The long-term goal of this project is to examine spoken language in the broader context of the brain’s adaptive cognitive system to better understand the processes and representations used to produce and recognize spoken words. The project is examining how frequency and multiple activation influence processing at several levels of representation, including the semantic (sentence), the lexical (word), and the sub-lexical levels. The frequency of occurrence and the activation of multiple, similar representations, (called “neighbors”) at each level will be examined to examine how these general processing principles are influenced by the demands of language processing.

Project Administration

Michael Vitevitch, principal investigator

Project Contact

Michael Vitevitch, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
mvitevit@ku.edu
1415 Jayhawk Blvd. Rm 426
Lawrence,KS 66045-7556
785-864-4131 (phone)
785-864-5696 (fax)

This is a project of:

Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC)

Funded by:

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)