Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Neuroscience by Creator "Rauschecker, Josef P"
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Examinations of Audiovisual Speech Processes, the McGurk Effect and the Heteromodal Superior Temporal Sulcus in the Human Brain Across Numerous Approaches
(Georgetown University, 2016)Speech can be perceived through the speech sounds we hear and the facial/lip movements we see. In this dissertation, I explore the fundamental question of how the brain processes audiovisual (AV) speech using different ... -
On Speech, Music, and Audiomotor Interactions
(Georgetown University, 2016)Speech and music production require repeated and accurate coordination between actions and sounds. This tightly regulated set of audiomotor interactions seems to persist for receptive speech and music perception as well. ... -
Word recognition in auditory cortex
(Georgetown University, 2013)Although spoken word recognition is more fundamental to human communication than text recognition, knowledge of word-processing in auditory cortex is comparatively impoverished. This dissertation synthesizes current models ...
