ReviewCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2015
Prediction and constraint in audiovisual speech perception.
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102 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- ERP Evidence for Cross-Modal Effects on Attractiveness Perception.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Theta Oscillations as a Bridge between Perception and Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- The rhythm of sensory input shapes audio-visual temporal processing.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Audiovisual N-back training in older adults: Benefits to working memory and audiovisual integration.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
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- Visual Speech Reduces Cognitive Effort as Measured by EEG Theta Power and Pupil Dilation.eNeuro · 2025Article
- Stereoelectroencephalography Reveals Neural Signatures of Multisensory Integration in the Human Superior Temporal Sulcus during Audiovisual Speech Perception.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Distinct Cortical Populations Drive Multisensory Modulation of Segregated Auditory Sources.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Vibrotactile speech cues are associated with enhanced auditory processing in middle and superior temporal gyri.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Distinct contributions of foveal and extrafoveal visual information to emotion judgments and gaze behavior for faces.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Understanding discourse in face-to-face settings: The impact of multimodal cues and listening conditions.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2025Article
- Audiovisual speech perception deficits in unaffected siblings of children with developmental language disorder.Brain and language · 2025Article
- Integration of audiovisual speech perception: From infancy to older adults.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
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- Neural correlates of phonetic categorization under auditory (phoneme) and visual (grapheme) modalities.Neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
During face-to-face conversational speech listeners must efficiently process a rapid and complex stream of multisensory information. Visual speech can serve as a critical complement to auditory information because it provides cues to both the timing of the incoming acoustic signal (the amplitude envelope, influencing attention and perceptual sensitivity) and its content (place and manner of articulation, constraining lexical selection). Here we review behavioral and neurophysiological evidence regarding listeners' use of visual speech information. Multisensory integration of audiovisual speech cues improves recognition accuracy, particularly for speech in noise. Even when speech is intelligible based solely on auditory information, adding visual information may reduce the cognitive demands placed on listeners through increasing the precision of prediction. Electrophysiological studies demonstrate that oscillatory cortical entrainment to speech in auditory cortex is enhanced when visual speech is present, increasing sensitivity to important acoustic cues. Neuroimaging studies also suggest increased activity in auditory cortex when congruent visual information is available, but additionally emphasize the involvement of heteromodal regions of posterior superior temporal sulcus as playing a role in integrative processing. We interpret these findings in a framework of temporally-focused lexical competition in which visual speech information affects auditory processing to increase sensitivity to acoustic information through an early integration mechanism, and a late integration stage that incorporates specific information about a speaker's articulators to constrain the number of possible candidates in a spoken utterance. Ultimately it is words compatible with both auditory and visual information that most strongly determine successful speech perception during everyday listening. Thus, audiovisual speech perception is accomplished through multiple stages of integration, supported by distinct neuroanatomical mechanisms.
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