Speech Perception And Production - Why We Can Read Our Own Lips Better Than Others

Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 19:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Most people can't read lips. If you turn down the sound on your television, you can see why it is difficule. Unless trained, if you see someone speak a sentence without the accompanying sounds, you are unlikely to recognize many words but it turns out people can lip-read themselves better than they can lip-read others, and that shows an interesting link between speech perception and speech production. read more

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