Haskins Publications

Number	1579
Year	2008
Drawer	27
Entry Date	04/08/2010
Authors	Gick, B., Jóhannsdóttir, K.M., Gibraiel, D., Mühlbauer, J.
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Publication	Journal of Acoustical Society of America, v. 123(4), Express Letters
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1579.pdf
Abstract	A single pool of untrained subjects was tested for interactions across two bimodal perception conditions: audio-tactile, in which subjects heard and felt speech, and visual-tactile, in which subjects saw and felt speech. Identifications of English obstruent consonants were compared in bimodal and no-tactile baseline conditions. Results indicate that tactile information enhances speech perception by about 10 percent, regardless of which other mode (auditory or visual) is active. However, within-subject analysis indicates that individual subjects who benefit more form tactile information in on cross-modal condition tend to benefit less from tactile information in the other.
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