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waynest

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Speech segmentation is defined as
 
  a. creating a sentence from a series of spoken words.
  b. ignoring the spaces between the spoken words of a sentence.
  c. organizing the sounds of speech into individual words.
  d. recognizing a few words out of many when hearing a largely unfamiliar language.

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of an effect of top-down processing?
 
  a. Speech segmentation
  b. Seeing a flash of lightning in a thunderstorm
  c. The response of a feature detector
  d. Perceiving all of the birds in a flock as belonging together



lin77x

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a



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