The Effect of Visual Articulatory Information on the Neural Correlates of Non-native Speech Sound Discrimination.

ABSTRACT: Behavioral studies have shown that the ability to discriminate between non-native speech sounds improves after seeing how the sounds are articulated. This study examined the influence of visual articulatory information on the neural correlates of non-native speech sound discrimination. English speakers' discrimination of the Hindi dental and retroflex sounds was measured using the mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related potential, before and after they completed one of three 8-min training conditions. In an audio-visual speech training condition (n = 14), each sound was presented with its corresponding visual articulation. In one control condition (n = 14), both sounds were presented with the same visual articulation, resulting in one congruent and one incongruent audio-visual pairing. In

SUBMITTER: Plumridge JMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7019039 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature