According to the special mechanism approach to speech perception,

a. the motor cortex of the brain is especially active during speech perception.
b. context is particularly important in speech perception.
c. we perceive speech the same way we perceive other auditory stimuli.
d. speech perception requires some kind of phonetic module, in addition to our general cognitive processes.


Ans: d

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