Seeing and hearing a word: combining eye and ear is more efficient than combining the parts of a word.

To understand why human sensitivity for complex objects is so low, we study how word identification combines eye and ear or parts of a word (features, letters, syllables). Our observers identify printed and spoken words presented concurrently or separately. When researchers measure threshold (energy...

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Main Authors: Matthieu Dubois, David Poeppel, Denis G Pelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23734220/?tool=EBI