ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2014
Neural pathways for visual speech perception.
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- Magnetoencephalography Source Connectivity Pipeline Reveals Long-Range Connectivity in Audio-Visual Integration.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Role of Speech Reading During Visual Word Processing in Hearing Children: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
- Long-term musical training can protect against age-related upregulation of neural activity in speech-in-noise perception.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Phonological Representations of Auditory and Visual Speech in the Occipito-temporal Cortex and Beyond.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural mechanisms of lipreading in the Polish-speaking population: effects of linguistic complexity and sex differences.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- From Multimodal Sensorimotor Integration to Semantic Networks: A Phylogenetic Perspective on Speech and Language Evolution.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Review
- The Contribution of Motion-Sensitive Brain Areas to Visual Speech Recognition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Dynamic causal modeling analysis reveals the modulation of motor cortex and integration in superior temporal gyrus during multisensory speech perception.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Evoking artificial speech perception through invasive brain stimulation for brain-computer interfaces: current challenges and future perspectives.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Alterations of Audiovisual Integration in Alzheimer's Disease.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Review
- A representation of abstract linguistic categories in the visual system underlies successful lipreading.NeuroImage · 2023Article
- Inhibitory TMS over Visual Area V5/MT Disrupts Visual Speech Recognition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
This paper examines the questions, what levels of speech can be perceived visually, and how is visual speech represented by the brain? Review of the literature leads to the conclusions that every level of psycholinguistic speech structure (i.e., phonetic features, phonemes, syllables, words, and prosody) can be perceived visually, although individuals differ in their abilities to do so; and that there are visual modality-specific representations of speech qua speech in higher-level vision brain areas. That is, the visual system represents the modal patterns of visual speech. The suggestion that the auditory speech pathway receives and represents visual speech is examined in light of neuroimaging evidence on the auditory speech pathways. We outline the generally agreed-upon organization of the visual ventral and dorsal pathways and examine several types of visual processing that might be related to speech through those pathways, specifically, face and body, orthography, and sign language processing. In this context, we examine the visual speech processing literature, which reveals widespread diverse patterns of activity in posterior temporal cortices in response to visual speech stimuli. We outline a model of the visual and auditory speech pathways and make several suggestions: (1) The visual perception of speech relies on visual pathway representations of speech qua speech. (2) A proposed site of these representations, the temporal visual speech area (TVSA) has been demonstrated in posterior temporal cortex, ventral and posterior to multisensory posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS). (3) Given that visual speech has dynamic and configural features, its representations in feedforward visual pathways are expected to integrate these features, possibly in TVSA.
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