Developmental changes in visual and auditory contributions to speech perception
Abstract
Previous research has demonstrated that listeners make use of both auditory and visual information in bimodal speech perception. Preschool children appear to evaluate and integrate the two sources of information in the same manner as adults, but the children are less influenced by the visual source. The current experiments test a possible explanation of this difference and extend the question to younger children. It is possible that children are poorer lip-readers than adults and thus have less complete information about the visual source. Children and adults were tested with both auditory and visual sources and were also required to identify speech events on the basis of only the visual source. In addition to replicating the previous findings in the bimodal situation, the current experiments found that children are poorer lip-readers than adults. Furthermore, a positive correlation was observed between lip-reading ability and the size of the visual contribution to bimodal speech perception. A fuzzy logical model of speech perception provided a good quantitative description of the results even with the assumption that the visual information was equivalent in both the bimodal and lip-reading conditions. The results also contradict the categorical perception of speech events and any nonindependence in the evaluation of auditory and visual information in speech perception.
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The reduced McGurk effects in children are attributable to developmental differences in visual information sensitivity rather than to differences in integration processes.
“However, these researchers also showed that the reduced effects are attributable to developmental differences in visual information sensitivity rather than to differences in integration processes.”
From The McGurk effect in infants (1997) · cites this paper as Massaro et al., 1986
Research on the McGurk effect has tested young children.
“Research on the McGurk effect has also tested young children”
From The McGurk effect in infants (1997) · cites this paper as Massaro, Thompson, Barron, & Laren, 1986
Massaro and colleagues have shown that preschool children show less of a visual influence of /ba/ on /da/ (and /da/ on /ba/) than adults do.
“Massaro and his colleagues (Massaro et aI., 1986) have shown that preschool children show less of a visual influence ofIbal on Idal (and Idal on Iba/) than adults do.”
From The McGurk effect in infants (1997) · cites this paper as Massaro et al., 1986
There is evidence that young children might not have the lipreading skills of adults.
“In fact, there is evidence that young children might not have the lipreading skills of adults (Massaro et al., 1986).”
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- Authors
- Massaro, D. W., Thompson, L. A., Barron, B., & Laren, E.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Corresponding author
- Massaro, Dominic W
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1986-02
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 93-113
- ISSN
- 0022-0965 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2042213031
- Cited by
- 144
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH-35334)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Speech and Audio Processing
- Keywords
- lip reading, audiovisual integration, preschool children, fuzzy modeling
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Lipreading, Male, Phonetics, Speech Perception
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