Audiovisual cues benefit recognition of accented speech in noise but not perceptual adaptation

Perceptual adaptation allows humans to understand a variety of accented speech. We investigated whether perceptual adaptation to accented speech is facilitated if listeners can see a speaker’s facial and mouth movements. In Study 1, participants listened to sentences in a novel accent and underwent...

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Main Authors: Briony eBanks, Emma eGowen, Kevin J Munro, Patti eAdank
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00422/full