Aero-tactile integration in speech perception.

ABSTRACT: Visual information from a speaker's face can enhance or interfere with accurate auditory perception. This integration of information across auditory and visual streams has been observed in functional imaging studies, and has typically been attributed to the frequency and robustness with which perceivers jointly encounter event-specific information from these two modalities. Adding the tactile modality has long been considered a crucial next step in understanding multisensory integration. However, previous studies have found an influence of tactile input on speech perception only under limited circumstances, either where perceivers were aware of the task or where they had received training to establish a cross-modal mapping. Here we show that perceivers integrate naturalistic tactile inform

SUBMITTER: Gick B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3662541 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature