Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important
social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces âe" our feelings, our locus of …

The past few decades have seen rapid changes in speech-language pathology in terms of
technology, information on speech production and perception, and increasing levels of …

Humans are remarkably adept at understanding speech, even when it is contaminated by
noise. Multisensory integration may explain some of this ability: combining independent …

Social interaction involves the active visual perception of facial expressions and
communicative gestures. This study examines the distribution of gaze fixations while …

In this study of visual (V-only) and audiovisual (AV) speech recognition in adults aged 22–92
years, the rate of age-related decrease in V-only performance was more than twice that in …

Recent influential models of audiovisual speech perception suggest that visual speech aids
perception by generating predictions about the identity of upcoming speech sounds. These …

We conducted three experiments in order to examine the influence of gaze behavior and
fixation on audiovisual speech perception in a task that required subjects to report the …

In noisy environments, listeners tend to hear a speaker's voice yet struggle to understand
what is said. The most effective way to improve intelligibility in such conditions is to watch …

During face-to-face conversation the face provides auditory and visual linguistic information,
and also conveys information about the identity of the speaker. This study investigated …

In this chapter we address the audiovisual integration of information for speech. We first
summarize the spatial and temporal features of normal speech communication and the …