How can audiovisual pathways enhance the temporal resolution of time-compressed speech in blind subjects?

How can audiovisual pathways enhance the temporal resolution of time-compressed speech in blind subjects?

In blind people, the visual channel cannot assist face-to-face communication via lipreading or visual prosody. Nevertheless, the visual system may enhance the evaluation of auditory information due to its cross-links to (1) the auditory system, (2) supramodal representations, and (3) frontal action-...

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Main Authors: Ingo eHertrich, Susanne eDietrich, Hermann eAckermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Blindness
Speech Perception
Visual Cortex
speech prosody
time-compressed speech
audiovisual pathways
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00530/full

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