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Answer the following four questions based on the readings from Chapters 1 and 7. Each question is worth 2 points. 

1. What is the difference between top-down and bottom-up processing? Give an example of top-down and bottom-up processing.
2. What is phoneme restoration? Which types of words have stronger restoration effects?
3. What is the difference between categorical perception and voice-onset time (VOT)?
4. Describe dichotic listening experiments. What do they tell us about right-ear advantage (REA)?