Carrying out any everyday task, be it driving in traffic, conversing with friends or playing
basketball, requires rapid selection, integration and segregation of stimuli from different …

The ability to understand speech in the presence of competing sound sources is an
important neuroscience question in terms of how the nervous system solves this …

Visual emotion expression plays an important role in audiovisual speech communication. In
this work, we propose a novel approach to rendering visual emotion expression in speech …

How and where in the brain audio-visual signals are bound to create multimodal objects
remains unknown. One hypothesis is that temporal coherence between dynamic …

The ASA Press imprint represents a collaboration between the Acoustical Society of America
and Springer dedicated to encouraging the publication of important new books in acoustics …

Crossmodal integration is a term applicable to many phenomena in which one sensory
modality influences task performance or perception in another sensory modality. We …

There is considerable debate over how visual speech is processed in the absence of sound
and whether neural activity supporting lipreading occurs in visual brain areas. Much of the …

Most normal-hearing listeners can understand a conversational partner in an everyday
setting with an ease that is unmatched by any computational algorithm available today. This …

The presence of a corresponding talking face has been shown to significantly improve
speech intelligibility in noisy conditions and for hearing impaired population. In this paper …

The ability to discover regularities in the environment, such as syllable patterns in speech, is
known as statistical learning. Previous studies have shown that statistical learning is …