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NPB 165 Neurobiology of Speech Perception

Dr. Miller teaches NPB 165 each fall quarter at UCD. Below is the course description, registration information, and some cool demo's from the course.

Course Description:

Lecture --3 hours. Prerequisite: course 100 or 101 or consent of instructor. Interdisciplinary approach to speech perception with emphasis on functional neuroanatomy and behavior.  Topics include auditory processing in time and space, intelligibility in noisy environments, visual speech, evolution of vocal communication, models of speech perception, development, and hearing impairment.--I.(I.)Miller

For more info, check out this flyer.

Also, see the NPB 165 Course Topics for a complete list of topics that may be discussed in lecture.


For Fall 2008, the course will meet TR from 10:30 to 11:50 am.

The CRN is TBA.


xray_voice

Demos:


        Xray Footage of Speech Production                                     http://psyc.queensu.ca/~munhallk/05_why_did_ken.mov






AV_speech

McGurk Effect: Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices

http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html






Emotional Speech







soundwaves                                                               
Auditory Illusions
http://www.parmly.luc.edu/parmly/audio_demos.html
                                   
ipods
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                      How mp3 and Other Coding Affect Speech
http://david.weekly.org/audio/speech.php3



                                               

Brain Damage and Language Comprehension:
Wernicke's Aphasia
http://www.physiology.wisc.edu/yin/public/odell%20wernickes%20doc123%20250b.asf
wernicke's lesion

                            
                                         




Brain Damage and Language Production:
Broca's Aphasia
http://www.physiology.wisc.edu/yin/public/odell%20jack%20brocas.asf
        
Broca's Lesion

Neuroimaging:
Getting Inside the Human Brain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroimaging
brain_activity

Hearing Loss: Can You Hear Me Now?
damaged ears
















Left Brain vs. Right Brain
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/lx001/Dichotic/dichotic.html
left vs right





ASL

Sign Language and The Brain
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