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Free viewing of talking faces reveals mouth and eye preferring regions of the human superior temporal sulcus.
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- Responses to Visual Speech in Human Posterior Superior Temporal Gyrus Examined with iEEG Deconvolution.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Face viewing behavior predicts multisensory gain during speech perception.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Article
- Using principal component analysis to characterize eye movement fixation patterns during face viewing.Journal of vision · 2019Article
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Abstract
During face-to-face communication, the mouth of the talker is informative about speech content, while the eyes of the talker convey other information, such as gaze location. Viewers most often fixate either the mouth or the eyes of the talker's face, presumably allowing them to sample these different sources of information. To study the neural correlates of this process, healthy humans freely viewed talking faces while brain activity was measured with BOLD fMRI and eye movements were recorded with a video-based eye tracker. Post hoc trial sorting was used to divide the data into trials in which participants fixated the mouth of the talker and trials in which they fixated the eyes. Although the audiovisual stimulus was identical, the two trials types evoked differing responses in subregions of the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS). The anterior pSTS preferred trials in which participants fixated the mouth of the talker while the posterior pSTS preferred fixations on the eye of the talker. A second fMRI experiment demonstrated that anterior pSTS responded more strongly to auditory and audiovisual speech than posterior pSTS eye-preferring regions. These results provide evidence for functional specialization within the pSTS under more realistic viewing and stimulus conditions than in previous neuroimaging studies.
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