The visual speech head start improves perception and reduces superior temporal cortex responses to auditory speech

Visual information about speech content from the talker’s mouth is often available before auditory information from the talker's voice. Here we examined perceptual and neural responses to words with and without this visual head start. For both types of words, perception was enhanced by viewing...

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Main Authors: Patrick J Karas, John F Magnotti, Brian A Metzger, Lin L Zhu, Kristen B Smith, Daniel Yoshor, Michael S Beauchamp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-08-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/48116