The effect of combined sensory and semantic components on audio-visual speech perception in older adults

Previous studies have found that perception in older people benefits from multisensory over uni-sensory information. As normal speech recognition is affected by both the auditory input and the visual lip-movements of the speaker, we investigated the efficiency of audio and visual integration in an...

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Main Authors: Corrina eMaguinness, Annalisa eSetti, Kate eBurke, Rose Anne eKenny, Fiona N Newell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2011.00019/full