WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar: “Auditory illusions involving speech“（3/23）
Details
Speech perception is a constructive act of sensing which relies not only on the ability to perceive sound but also on the knowledge of one’s language and sometimes even on the general knowledge of the world. No other phenomena demonstrate the involvement of such pre-existing knowledge in perception as the existence of illusions. Auditory illusions involving speech are examples of individual perceptual experiences in which the brain misinterprets or alters the acoustic speech signal in surprising ways. Illusions reveal important principles about how the auditory system processes and organizes speech. The seminar will touch on the Ganong effect and phoneme restoration, cover verbal transformations and mondegreens. It will focus primarily on the speech-to-song illusion and conclude with the discussion of a more complex linguistic effect such as the Moses illusion which has recently been shown to exist in the auditory domain. The seminar will be accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience with an interest in auditory perception.
Speaker
RATHCKE, Tamara,
Professor of English Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany
Date & Time
March 23, 2026 (Mon.) 10:00 – 11:40 am
Venue
Room #514, Building #14, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Language
English
Prospected Audience
Undergraduate, Graduate, Researchers, Faculty members, General audience
Organizer
POPPE, Clemens,
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, School of Education
Co-Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
