Visual Influence on Auditory Perception of Vowels by French-Speaking Children and Adults
Audiovisual interaction in speech perception is well defined in adults. Despite the large body of evidence suggesting that children are also sensitive to visual input, very few empirical studies have been conducted. To further investigate whether visual inputs influence auditory perception of phonem...
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| author | Paméla Trudeau-Fisette Paméla Trudeau-Fisette Laureline Arnaud Laureline Arnaud Lucie Ménard Lucie Ménard |
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| description | Audiovisual interaction in speech perception is well defined in adults. Despite the large body of evidence suggesting that children are also sensitive to visual input, very few empirical studies have been conducted. To further investigate whether visual inputs influence auditory perception of phonemes in preschoolers in the same way as in adults, we conducted an audiovisual identification test. The auditory stimuli (/e/-/ø/ continuum) were presented either in an auditory condition only or simultaneously with a visual presentation of the articulation of the vowel /e/ or /ø/. The results suggest that, although all participants experienced visual influence on auditory perception, substantial individual differences exist in the 5- to 6-year-old group. While additional work is required to confirm this hypothesis, we suggest that auditory and visual systems are developing at that age and that multisensory phonological categorization of the rounding contrast took place only in children whose sensory systems and sensorimotor representations were mature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be4bf70eca1c4c1d9e57d634af49740c2022-12-21T23:48:57ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-02-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.740271740271Visual Influence on Auditory Perception of Vowels by French-Speaking Children and AdultsPaméla Trudeau-Fisette0Paméla Trudeau-Fisette1Laureline Arnaud2Laureline Arnaud3Lucie Ménard4Lucie Ménard5Laboratoire de Phonétique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, CanadaCentre for Research on Brain, Language and Music, Montreal, QC, CanadaCentre for Research on Brain, Language and Music, Montreal, QC, CanadaIntegrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaLaboratoire de Phonétique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, CanadaCentre for Research on Brain, Language and Music, Montreal, QC, CanadaAudiovisual interaction in speech perception is well defined in adults. Despite the large body of evidence suggesting that children are also sensitive to visual input, very few empirical studies have been conducted. To further investigate whether visual inputs influence auditory perception of phonemes in preschoolers in the same way as in adults, we conducted an audiovisual identification test. The auditory stimuli (/e/-/ø/ continuum) were presented either in an auditory condition only or simultaneously with a visual presentation of the articulation of the vowel /e/ or /ø/. The results suggest that, although all participants experienced visual influence on auditory perception, substantial individual differences exist in the 5- to 6-year-old group. While additional work is required to confirm this hypothesis, we suggest that auditory and visual systems are developing at that age and that multisensory phonological categorization of the rounding contrast took place only in children whose sensory systems and sensorimotor representations were mature.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.740271/fullspeech perceptionadultschildrensensorimotor maturationaudiovisual interaction |
| spellingShingle | Paméla Trudeau-Fisette Paméla Trudeau-Fisette Laureline Arnaud Laureline Arnaud Lucie Ménard Lucie Ménard Visual Influence on Auditory Perception of Vowels by French-Speaking Children and Adults Frontiers in Psychology speech perception adults children sensorimotor maturation audiovisual interaction |
| title | Visual Influence on Auditory Perception of Vowels by French-Speaking Children and Adults |
| title_full | Visual Influence on Auditory Perception of Vowels by French-Speaking Children and Adults |
| title_fullStr | Visual Influence on Auditory Perception of Vowels by French-Speaking Children and Adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visual Influence on Auditory Perception of Vowels by French-Speaking Children and Adults |
| title_short | Visual Influence on Auditory Perception of Vowels by French-Speaking Children and Adults |
| title_sort | visual influence on auditory perception of vowels by french speaking children and adults |
| topic | speech perception adults children sensorimotor maturation audiovisual interaction |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.740271/full |
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