Subject: available for review : massaro 98 -

the book listed below is in the linguist office and now available for review . if you are interested in reviewing a book ( or leading a discussion of the book ) ; please contact our book review editor , andrew carnie , at : carnie @ linguistlist . org please include in your request message a brief statement about your research interests , background , affiliation and other information that might be valuable to help us select a suitable reviewer . speech perception massaro , dominic ( 1998 ) perceiving talking faces : from speech perception to a behavioral principle . cambridge : mit press . pattern recognition is deemed central to cognition . it appears to follow an optimal algorithm in a wide variety of behaviors and situations . _ perceiving talking faces _ proposes an invariant law of pattern recognition to describe how multiple sources of continuously perceived information , such as auditory and visual speech input are processed to achieve perception of a category . the book details the author 's extensive series of experiments on the use of multiple cues in speech perception and other domains , and unifies teh results under the fuzzy logical model of perception . the volume includes a cd rom . the reviewer of this volume will be expected to review both the book and the cd rom .
