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Something in the way she moves
Kevin G Munhall1, Julie N Buchan
1Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada. munhallk@psyc.queensu.ca
Abstract:
A recent study using a crossmodal matching task showed that the identity of a talker could be recognized even when the auditory and visual stimuli that were being matched were different sentences spoken by the talker. This finding implies that general temporal features of a person's speech are shared across the auditory and visual modalities.
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