Lexical Influences in Audiovisual Speech Perception

Number 1343
Year 2004
Drawer 25
Entry Date 01/28/2008
Authors Brancazio, L.
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Publication Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, V. 30: No. 3, pp. 445-463.
url http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1343.pdf
Abstract Phoneme identification with audiovisually discrepant stimuli is influenced by information in the visual signal (the McGurk effect). Additionally, lexical status affects identification of auditorily presented phonemes. The present study tested for lexical influences on the McGurk effect. Participants identified phonemes in audiovisually discrepant stimuli in which lexical status of the auditory component and of a visually influenced percept was independently varied. Visually influenced (McGurk) responses were more frequent when they formed a word and when the auditory signal was a nonword (Experiment 1). Lexical effects were larger for slow than for fast responses (Experiment 2), as with auditory speech, and were replicated with stimuli matched on physical properties (Experiment 3). These results are consistent with models in which lexical processing of speech is modality independent.
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