The effect of gaze on EEG measures of multisensory integration in a cocktail party scenario.

ABSTRACT: Seeing the speaker's face greatly improves our speech comprehension in noisy environments. This is due to the brain's ability to combine the auditory and the visual information around us, a process known as multisensory integration. Selective attention also strongly influences what we comprehend in scenarios with multiple speakers - an effect known as the cocktail-party phenomenon. However, the interaction between attention and multisensory integration is not fully understood, especially when it comes to natural, continuous speech. In a recent electroencephalography (EEG) study, we explored this issue and showed that multisensory integration is enhanced when an audiovisual speaker is attended compared to when that speaker is unattended. Here, we extend that work to investigate how this int

SUBMITTER: Ahmed F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473711 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature