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Hearing Anatomy
Hearing Physiology
Acoustic Cues
Strategies & Models
Wild Card
100
The outer ear consists of the _________ and ________.
What is the pinna or auricle and ear canal or external auditory meatus?
100
True or False? Listeners use non-acoustic cues when comprehending speech.
True
100
Both the frequencies and the patterning of the frequencies of formants are important acoustic cues for the perception of _________.
What is vowels?
100
The two types of perceptual tests used to study categorical perception are the ______ test and the _____ test.
What is identification and discrimination?
100
The presence of aperiodic energy of relatively great duration is an acoustic cue to _______ manner of articulation.
What is a fricative?
200
the ossicular chain of the middle eear consists of three bones: the ___, the ____, and the ___.
What is the malleus, incus, and stapes?
200
True or False? The middle ear transforms the amplitude of the signal that is delivered to the cochlea.
True
200
True or false? Specific formant frequencies can specify a particular vowel.
False.
200
The ___ paradigm was used to test discrimination in the original categorical perception experiments.
What is ABX?
200
Transitions of the _____ formant cue fricative place of articulation.
What is the second (F2)?
300
The ______ muscle protects the inner ear from loud sounds.
What is the stapedius?
300
Sound is transmitted to the cochlea via the ______ window.
What is oval?
300
The ______ are consonants cued perceptually by several attenuated formants.
What are nasals?
300
Measuring infants' _____ rate can provide a measure of stimulus discrimination.
What is sucking?
300
The floor of the cochlear duct is the ______________ _____________.
What is the basilar membrane?
400
The auditory nerve is the ____ cranial nerve.
What is the eighth (VIII)?
400
Differences between internal and external air pressure are equalized via the ________ _________.
What is the eustachian tube?
400
The presence of a transient burst of noise is a significant cue to stop ______ of articulation.
What is manner?
400
The response options on identification tests are _____ choice and _____ choice.
What is forced and open?
400
The original synthetic stimuli used to study categorical perception were generated on a synthesizer called the ______ ______.
What is the Pattern Playback?
500
The auditory cortex is located in the ________ lobe of the brain.
What is temporal?
500
______ frequency sounds stimulate the basilar membrane at its base.
What is high?
500
Voice onset time is the time difference between the _____ of a stop and the beginning of ______.
What is release and phonation (voicing)?
500
Motor theories of speech perception posit links between _____ ______ and ______ ______.
What is speech production and speech perception?
500
The ___ system is important in controlling balance.
What is the vestibular?