About Face: Seeing the Talker Improves Spoken Word Recognition but Increases Listening Effort

It is widely accepted that seeing a talker improves a listener’s ability to understand what a talker is saying in background noise (e.g., Erber, 1969; Sumby & Pollack, 1954). The literature is mixed, however, regarding the influence of the visual modality on the listening effort required to reco...

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Main Authors: Violet A. Brown, Julia F. Strand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2019-11-01
Series:Journal of Cognition
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Online Access:https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/89