Fixating the eyes of a speaker provides sufficient visual information to modulate early auditory processing.

Elina Kaplan, Alexandra Jesse

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Article in Biological psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Lip-Reading Enables the Brain to Synthesize Auditory Features of Unknown Silent Speech.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020
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Elina KaplanDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, 135 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.

Alexandra JesseDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, 135 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA. Electronic address: ajesse@psych.umass.edu.

University of Massachusetts Amherst · US

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Electrophysiological Indices of Audiovisual Benefits to Speech Processing in Aging AdultsR03AG059105 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI JESSE, ALEXANDRA · 2018 to 2019

$153k

NIA NIH HHS R03 AG059105

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Abstract

In face-to-face conversations, when listeners process and combine information obtained from hearing and seeing a speaker, they mostly look at the eyes rather than at the more informative mouth region. Measuring event-related potentials, we tested whether fixating the speaker's eyes is sufficient for gathering enough visual speech information to modulate early auditory processing, or whether covert attention to the speaker's mouth is needed. Results showed that when listeners fixated the eye region of the speaker, the amplitudes of the auditory evoked N1 and P2 were reduced when listeners heard and saw the speaker than when they only heard her. These cross-modal interactions also occurred when, in addition, attention was restricted to the speaker's eye region. Fixating the speaker's eyes thus provides listeners with sufficient visual information to facilitate early auditory processing. The spread of covert attention to the mouth area is not needed to observe audiovisual interactions.

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EyeSocial PerceptionAuditory PerceptionElectroencephalographyEvoked PotentialsEvoked Potentials, AuditoryFemaleFixation, OcularHumansMaleMouthPhotic StimulationSpeech PerceptionYoung AdultAttentionAudiovisual speech perceptionEvent-related potentialsMultisensory processing

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PMID31323242

DOI10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107724

PMCPMC6719704

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