Key Findings
A simulation of speech perception involves presenting the TRACE computer program with mock speech input, running the program, and generating a result. A successful simulation indicates that the result is found to be meaningfully similar to how people process speech.
To use an analogy, a model of the stock market is a theory about how the market works. If the model is made into a computer program and the program generates a one-year forecast of market performance, then that is a testable prediction. If the prediction turns out to be completely accurate, then the model must be a useful theory about the stock market. TRACE is the same kind of theory, only it is interested in how people perceive speech.
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