The TRACE model of speech perception

1986/01/01 by James L McClelland, James L. McClelland, Jeffrey L. Elman +1 · 2,996 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Categorical perception #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Embodied cognition #Linguistics #Natural language processing #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Perception #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Psychology #Reading and Literacy Development #Speech perception #Speech recognition #TRACE (psycholinguistics)

paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(86)90015-0

published in Cognitive Psychology 18(1), 1-86 (Elsevier BV)

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