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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
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Taken from book 5 pages 49-81 and pages 83-85 of Sound to meaning: Hearing, speech and Language

Figure 1 Copyright © Tony Camacho/Science Photo Library;

Figure 3, 5, 6, 9 Courtesy of Daniel Nettle;

Figure 7 Holly, R. et al. (1997) ‘Neurobiology of speech perception’, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 20. Copyright © 1997 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved;

Figure 8 Peterson, G. E. and Barney, H. L. (1952) ‘Control method used in a study of vowels’, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 24, No. 2, March 1952. The Acoustical Society of America. Used by permission of the American Institute of Physics;

Figure 11 Copyright © VVG/Science Photo Library;

Figure 12 Martini et al. (2000, Figures 18–17, p. 483) in Toates, F. (2001) ‘The other sensory systems’, in Biological Psychology, Pearson Education;

Figure 16 Sirigu, A. et al. (1991) ‘The role of sensorimotor experience in object recognition’, Brain, Part VI, p. 2558, by permission of Oxford University Press;

Figure 17 Indefrey, P. et al. (1998) ‘Specific response of the left inferior frontal sulcus to syntactic processing’ (manuscript), by permission of Dr Peter Indefrey;

Figure 18, 19, 20 Reprinted from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2, Friederici, A. D., ‘Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing’, p. 81, Copyright © 2002, Elsevier.

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