• This project is funded by the NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (COBRE) grant (NIH-NIGMS / 1R21DC020544) and is a collaboration with the Auditory Perceptual Encoding Laboratory and the Audibility, Perception and Cognition Laboratory​ . (boystownhospital.org)
  • Audiovisual and lexical forms of perceptual learning thus induce largely similar brain response patterns. (mit.edu)
  • 2005. Effect of audiovisual perceptual training on the perception and production of consonants by Japanese learners of English. (tidsskrift.dk)
  • Effects of perceptual training on second language vowel perception and production. (tidsskrift.dk)
  • 2018. Effects of audiovisual perceptual training with corrective feedback on the perception and production of English sounds by Korean learners. (tidsskrift.dk)
  • It provides an important step in building a formal representation of a lexical dynamic FLMP that can account not only for the time-course of speech information and its perceptual processing, but also for lexical influences. (mpi.nl)
  • To identify the brain regions mainly involved in this form of synaesthesia, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used during non-linguistic sound perception (chords and pure tones) in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. (researchgate.net)
  • A novel approach to study audiovisual integration in speech perception: Localizer fMRI and sparse sampling. (mpg.de)
  • This study compared phoneme boundary adjustments driven by lexical or audiovisual cues, using ultra-high-field 7-T fMRI. (mit.edu)
  • During her graduate training, she focused on the perception and cortical bases (M/EEG, fMRI) of audiovisual speech processing as an example of predictive coding in multisensory integration. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Experiments examine how sensitive children are to different audiovisual cues and how much these different mechanisms contribute to individual differences in children's audiovisual speech enhancement. (boystownhospital.org)
  • Dr. Lalonde's primary line of study focuses on audiovisual speech enhancement, the way listeners use visual cues on a speaker's face to help understand speech and how the use of said cues changes over development from infancy to young adulthood. (boystownhospital.org)
  • Acquisition of second-language speech: Effects of visual cues, context, and talker variability. (tidsskrift.dk)
  • 2006. The use of visual cues in the perception of non-native consonant contrasts. (tidsskrift.dk)
  • Perception of everyday life events relies mostly on multisensory integration. (jneurosci.org)
  • The applied paradigm was based on an appropriate modification of the multifeatured oddball paradigm incorporating, within one run, deviants based on a multisensory audiovisual incongruent condition and two unisensory mismatch conditions: an auditory and a visual one. (jneurosci.org)
  • Perception of everyday life events, such as watching and listening to a movie, relies mostly on multisensory integration. (jneurosci.org)
  • Perception of the multisensory coherence of fluent audiovisual speech in infancy: Its emergence and the role of experience. (bvsalud.org)
  • During her post-graduate training, she worked with Prof Srikantan Nagarajan (UC San Francisco) on auditory learning and plasticity, with Dr Ladan Shams (UC Los Angeles) on multisensory statistical learning, with Prof Dean Buonomano (UC Los Angeles) on time perception and at Caltech with Prof Shinsuke Shimojo on gesture communication, and interpersonal interactions. (cam.ac.uk)
  • highest degree achievable in France) and became a Director of Research (DR). Her research interests currently focus on temporal cognition and multisensory perception in humans. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Recently, Lee and Noppeney (2011) investigated the temporal window of audiovisual integration in a study comparing musicians and non-musicians. (jneurosci.org)
  • Their results indicated that practicing piano shapes automatic audiovisual temporal binding by a context-specific neural mechanism selectively for music, but not for speech. (jneurosci.org)
  • Integration and Temporal Processing of Asynchronous Audiovisual Speech. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Neuronal populations in the occipital cortex of the blind synchronize to the temporal dynamics of speech. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Representational interactions during audiovisual speech entrainment: Redundancy in left posterior superior temporal gyrus and synergy in left motor cortex. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Lower Beta: A Central Coordinator of Temporal Prediction in Multimodal Speech. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Abstract While we are all experts in "experiencing time", introspection provides us with very little intuition regarding the neural mechanisms supporting time perception and temporal cognition. (cam.ac.uk)
  • This paper reviews possible applications of the event-related potential (ERP) technique to the study of cortical mechanisms supporting human auditory processing, including speech stimuli. (aimspress.com)
  • Giraud A-L, Poeppel D (2012) Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations. (aimspress.com)
  • 2015) Atypical coordination of cortical oscillations in response to speech in autism. (aimspress.com)
  • Delta(but not theta)-band cortical entrainment involves speech-specific processing. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Visual benefit in lexical tone perception in Mandarin: An event-related potential study. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • However, it remains unclear whether lexical tone perception in Mandarin also shows this visual benefit. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • The current study compared the N1/P2 reduction in Mandarin lexical tones and consonants perception with a discrimination task. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Result showed amplitude reductions in N1/P2 and a latency reduction in N1 for audiovisual lexical tone perception. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • These findings suggest that lexical tone perception was also helped by visual information as found in consonants. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Furthermore, this visual benefit in N1 for lexical tone perception was delayed relative to consonants. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Exposure stimuli for lexical retuning were audio recordings of words, and those for audiovisual recalibration were audio-video recordings of lip movements during utterances of pseudowords. (mit.edu)
  • To properly account for the complementary visual aspect we propose a unified framework to analyse speech and present our related findings in applications such as audiovisual speech inversion and recognition. (videolectures.net)
  • Dorsal‐movement and ventral‐form regions are functionally connected during visual‐speech recognition. (mpg.de)
  • L2 Speech Perception and Production, Audiovisual Speech Perception, Psycholinguistics, L2 Pronunciation Learning and Teaching, Automatic Speech Recognition and CALL, Individual Differences in SLA (e.g. (edu.au)
  • Developing pronunciation learner autonomy with Automatic Speech Recognition and shadowing. (edu.au)
  • A large-scale audiovisual gating study extends previous research on this topic by (1) using a set of words that includes all possible initial consonants in English in three vowel contexts, (2) tracking the information processing for individual words not only across modalities, but also over time, and (3) testing quantitative models of the time-course of multimodal word recognition. (mpi.nl)
  • The data were sufficient to discriminate between models of audiovisual word recognition. (mpi.nl)
  • Hence, studying the neural correlates of the integration of multiple senses constitutes an important tool in understanding perception within an ecologically valid framework. (jneurosci.org)
  • The present study used magnetoencephalography in human subjects to identify the neural correlates of an audiovisual incongruency response, which is not generated due to incongruency of the unisensory physical characteristics of the stimulation but from the violation of an abstract congruency rule. (jneurosci.org)
  • Audiovisual recalibration also elicited significant occipital cortex activity despite the lack of visual stimuli. (mit.edu)
  • He will explain the term "audio-visual speech perception" and put it in the context of how the brain treats stimuli from our eyes and ears during communication. (nordicwelfare.org)
  • Stimuli were presented in auditory-only and audiovisual conditions across four speech-to-noise ratios. (wustl.edu)
  • Multimodal data acquisition platform used for speech production and audiovisual speech analysis and synthesis. (loria.fr)
  • 2005). According to the Principle of Inverse Effectiveness (PoIE), the benefit of multimodal (e.g. audiovisual) input should increase as unimodal (e.g. auditory-only) stimulus clarity decreases. (wustl.edu)
  • Human speech production and perception mechanisms are essentially bimodal. (videolectures.net)
  • In summary, the results of this thesis demonstrate that pre-stimulus mechanisms in auditory pitch perception remain consistent in the younger and older adult brain, while spectral dynamics change with age. (gla.ac.uk)
  • It answers theoretical questions what are the mechanisms by which heard and seen speech combine? (routledge.com)
  • There might be further limitations on the multi-sensory training benefit, such as whether it differs across native languages and can occur with other modalities than the audiovisual, but further research is needed to say anything conclusively in this area. (tidsskrift.dk)
  • Moving to the Speed of Sound: Context Modulation of the Effect of Acoustic Properties of Speech. (philpapers.org)
  • Speed accommodation in context: Context modulation of the effect of speech rate on response speed. (philpapers.org)
  • Visual speech is mostly informative about place of articulation, but also about frication and duration. (mpi.nl)
  • Moreover, only the integrity of the right FAT was related to phonology but not audiovisual speech perception, articulation, language, or literacy. (fiu.edu)
  • This suggests that sensorimotor information is directly implicated in audio-visual speech processing in infants. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • In order to understand and fully comprehend a subtitle, two parameters within the linguistic code of audiovisual texts are key in the processing of the subtitle itself, namely, vocabulary and syntax. (mdpi.com)
  • Research suggests a time-locked encoding mechanism may have evolved for speech processing in humans. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • A new study reports fine-grained speech processing details can be extracted from electrical brain signals measured through the scalp. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Conclusions: The results suggest that lipreading skills and AV speech perception reflect a common source of variance associated with the development of phonological processing skills that is shared among a wide range of speech and language outcome measures. (butler.edu)
  • Additionally, participants' rank order of AV benefit relative to other participants' was compared across speech-to-noise ratios in order to examine individual differences. (wustl.edu)
  • We call these benefits audiovisual speech enhancement. (boystownhospital.org)
  • Our research addressed the questions of whether/how AV enhancement and visual predictability of AV speech is represented in evoked activity in noisy listening conditions, and whether such Electroencephalographic (EEG) signatures remain stable with age. (gla.ac.uk)
  • However, we did not find evidence of an interaction between visual predictability and AV enhancement in terms of evoked activity, raising further questions about how visual predictability of speech is represented the brain's electrophysiology. (gla.ac.uk)
  • And lastly, we demonstrate that differences in the EEG signatures of AV enhancement between younger and older adults emerge in late evoked activity, and that visual predictability of speech is represented in late evoked activity only in older adults. (gla.ac.uk)
  • This visual benefit has been widely observed in perception of segments and linked to reduced amplitudes and latencies of auditory N1 and P2 event-related potential (ERP) components when visual information was present. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • This phenomenon is commonly referred to as audiovisual (AV) benefit (Sommers et al. (wustl.edu)
  • One method for investigating the factors that contribute to AV speech benefit is to examine listeners' gaze behavior with eye tracking. (wustl.edu)
  • The present study compared young adults' ( N =50) gaze behavior during AV speech presentations across a range of signal-to-noise ratios in order to determine the relationship between speech-to-noise ratio, gaze behavior, and audiovisual benefit. (wustl.edu)
  • However, gaze behavior was not a significant predictor of audiovisual benefit, and differences between participants' AV benefit were inconsistent across speech-to-noise ratios. (wustl.edu)
  • Objective: The present study investigated the development of audiovisual comprehension skills in prelingually deaf children who received cochlear implants. (butler.edu)
  • Results: The results revealed that prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants performed better under audiovisual (AV) presentation compared with auditory-alone (A-alone) or visual-alone (V-alone) conditions. (butler.edu)
  • Through a descriptive and experimental study, the present article explores the transfer of the linguistic code of audiovisual texts in subtitling for deaf and hard-of-hearing children in three Spanish TV stations. (mdpi.com)
  • Thus, where the reception and comprehension of linguistic information is concerned, the mouth neither functions as an articulatory instrument of speech to the deaf native cuer nor as an articulatory instrument of cuem to the hearing native speaker. (cuedspeech.org)
  • Development of audiovisual comprehension skills in prelingually deaf c" by Tonya R. Bergeson, David B. Pisoni et al. (butler.edu)
  • Some of our current projects in the domain of social communication in autism examine audiovisual speech perception, hearing-in-noise perception (including both speech-in-noise and music-in-noise), speech-and-gesture production and comprehension, and the role of atypical sensorimotor function in facial expressiveness. (rochester.edu)
  • When speech perception is difficult, one way listeners adjust is by reconfiguring phoneme category boundaries, drawing on contextual information. (mit.edu)
  • Speech perception improves when listeners are able to see as well as hear a talker, compared to listening alone. (wustl.edu)
  • Also honored at the AAS conference was Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D., Director of the Auditory Prostheses and Perception Laboratory, who received the Carhart Memorial Award. (boystownhospital.org)
  • Secondly, previous research had shown that Audio-visual (AV) speech influences the amplitude and latency of evoked activity. (gla.ac.uk)
  • This RCT study provides the first evidence of a causal effect of music training on improved audio-visual perception that goes beyond the music domain. (nature.com)
  • Thus, it is significant that the results of the current study provide evidence counter to the conclusion that cueing entails, includes, provides, or equates to knowledge of, or competence in, either the production or reception of speech. (cuedspeech.org)
  • Researchers embark on a study into the brain structures that process speech and music, and finds commonalities. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • If we can recognize the accent we hear, our brains are able to process foreign accented speech with better real time accuracy, a new study reports. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Musical training may enhance the ability to process speech in noisy settings, a new study reveals. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The present study characterized two fiber pathways important for language, the superior longitudinal fasciculus/arcuate fasciculus (SLF/AF) and the frontal aslant tract (FAT), and related these tracts to speech, language, and literacy skill in children five to eight years old. (fiu.edu)
  • The assumption is that the production and subsequent reception of cued utterances entail the production and reception of speech. (cuedspeech.org)
  • First, it demonstrates that speech perception is not only auditory and that multi-sensory input such as audiovisual recordings of speech and tactile input from speech production aid the acquisition and comprehension of speech in one's native language. (tidsskrift.dk)
  • It is designed for students and young researchers of all scientific backgrounds who are interested in an explanation of how the brain controls speech production, realises language comprehension and connects linguistic symbols with meaning and human interaction. (fu-berlin.de)
  • However, audiovisual recalibration involves additional visual cortex contributions, suggesting that previously acquired visual information (on lip movements) is retrieved and deployed to disambiguate auditory perception. (mit.edu)
  • The purpose of this research is to test the extent to which face masks disrupt word learning, which will help us to understand how to support word learning when access to a high-fidelity speech input is reduced. (boystownhospital.org)
  • A glance back on 50 years of research in perception. (mpg.de)
  • My research has been published in top-tier (Q1) SLA journals, such as the Modern Language Journal, Applied Psycholinguistics, the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, Language and Speech, Language Awareness, ReCALL, the Journal of Asia TEFL, the Canadian Modern Language Review, and Studies in Second Language Research and Teaching . (edu.au)
  • His research investigates how beat gestures affect speech perception, in particular testing such effects in more naturalistic listening conditions. (github.io)
  • Lipreading and speechreading, where his work forms the theoretic underpinnings of the field These and works on speech perception were recognised by his election as a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1998. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pushing the Envelope: Developments in Neural Entrainment to Speech and the Biological Underpinnings of Prosody Perception. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Additionally, participants increased the amount of time spent fixating on the talker's mouth as speech-to-noise ratio decreased. (wustl.edu)
  • Parent-child interaction as a dynamic contributor to learning and cognitive development in typical and atypical development / Influencia dinámica entre la interacción padre/madre-hijo y el aprendizaje y el desarrollo cognitivo en el desarrollo típico y atípico . (city.ac.uk)
  • Still moving: Form and motion integration for face perception revealed by prosopagnosia. (mpg.de)
  • impaired speechreading and auditory-visual speech integration in prosopagnosia, B. de Gelder et al. (routledge.com)
  • Visual speech helps in many ways. (boystownhospital.org)
  • We are studying how well children at various ages can use visual speech in these different ways. (boystownhospital.org)
  • Our results point to distinct patterns of late evoked activity underlying visual predictability of visual speech, again possibly reflecting differential strategies in predictive coding. (gla.ac.uk)