Lip-reading aids word recognition most in moderate noise: a Bayesian explanation using high-dimensional feature space.

Watching a speaker's facial movements can dramatically enhance our ability to comprehend words, especially in noisy environments. From a general doctrine of combining information from different sensory modalities (the principle of inverse effectiveness), one would expect that the visual signals...

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Main Authors: Wei Ji Ma, Xiang Zhou, Lars A Ross, John J Foxe, Lucas C Parra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19259259/?tool=EBI