harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Stevan Harnad) (01/04/89)
Below is the abstract of a book that will be multiply reviewed in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal that provides Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Reviewers must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a reviewer for this book, to suggest other appropriate reviewers, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: harnad@confidence.princeton.edu or write to: BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771] ____________________________________________________________________ BBS Multiple Book review of: SPEECH PERCEPTION BY EAR AND EYE: A PARADIGM FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY (Hillsdale NJ: LE Erlbaum Associates 1987) Dominic William Massaro Program in Experimental Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz This book is about the processing of information, particularly in face-to-face spoken communication where both audible and visible information are available. Experimental tasks were designed to manipulate many of these sources of information independently and to test mathematical fuzzy logical and other models of performance and the underlying stages of information processing. Multiple sources of information are evaluated and integrated to achieve speech perception. Graded information seems to be derived about the degree to which an input fits a given category rather than just all-or-none categorical information. Sources of information are evaluated independently, with the integration process insuring that the least ambiguous sources have the most impact on the judgment. The processes underlying speech-perception also occur in a variety of other behaviors, ranging from categorization to sentence interpretation, decision making and forming impressions about people. -- Stevan Harnad INTERNET: harnad@confidence.princeton.edu harnad@princeton.edu srh@flash.bellcore.com harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu harnad@princeton.uucp BITNET: harnad@pucc.bitnet CSNET: harnad%princeton.edu@relay.cs.net (609)-921-7771