Read My Lips: Using Multiple Senses In Speech Perception
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 22:28
in Psychology & Sociology
When someone speaks to you, do you see what they are saying? We tend to think of speech as being something we hear, but recent studies suggest that we use a variety of senses for speech perception - that speech is not meant to be just heard, but also to be seen. A new report describes research examining how our different senses blend together to help us perceive speech.