Activation of auditory cortex during silent lipreading.

Watching a speaker's lips during face-to-face conversation (lipreading) markedly improves speech perception, particularly in noisy conditions. With functional magnetic resonance imaging it was found that these linguistic visual cues are sufficient to activate auditory cortex in normal hearing i...

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Main Authors: Calvert, G, Bullmore, E, Brammer, M, Campbell, R, Williams, S, McGuire, P, Woodruff, P, Iversen, S, David, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1997