Neural Correlates of Quality Perception for Complex Speech Signals

Download or read book Neural Correlates of Quality Perception for Complex Speech Signals written by Jan-Niklas Antons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interconnects two essential disciplines to study the perception of speech: Neuroscience and Quality of Experience, which to date have rarely been used together for the purposes of research on speech quality perception. In five key experiments, the book demonstrates the application of standard clinical methods in neurophysiology on the one hand and of methods used in fields of research concerned with speech quality perception on the other. Using this combination, the book shows that speech stimuli with different lengths and different quality impairments are accompanied by physiological reactions related to quality variations, e.g., a positive peak in an event-related potential. Furthermore, it demonstrates that – in most cases – quality impairment intensity has an impact on the intensity of physiological reactions.