Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Children's perception of visual and auditory speech.

D W Massaro

    Child Development
    |October 1, 1984
    PubMed
    Summary

    Preschool children and adults integrate visual and auditory speech cues. Children rely less on visual information, but this is not due to attention, according to this speech perception study.

    Related Concept Videos

    You might also read

    Related Articles

    Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

    Sort by
    Same author

    Perceiving affect from the voice and the face.

    Psychonomic bulletin & review·2013
    Same author

    Letters are functional in word identification.

    Memory & cognition·2013
    Same author

    Modeling face identification processing in children and adults.

    Journal of experimental child psychology·2001
    Same author

    Bayes factor of model selection validates FLMP.

    Psychonomic bulletin & review·2001
    Same author

    Tests of auditory-visual integration efficiency within the framework of the fuzzy logical model of perception.

    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2000
    Same author

    Speech perception in perceivers with hearing loss: synergy of multiple modalities.

    Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR·1999

    Area of Science:

    • Developmental psychology
    • Auditory and visual perception
    • Speech processing

    Background:

    • Speech perception involves integrating multiple sensory inputs.
    • Understanding developmental differences in multisensory integration is crucial for cognitive science.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To compare how preschool children and adults evaluate and integrate visual and auditory information during speech perception.
    • To test developmental theories of perceptual categorization and speech perception.

    Main Methods:

    • Subjects identified synthetic speech syllables (/ba/ to /da/) paired with videotaped visual cues (articulation of /ba/, /da/, or no movement).
    • Quantitative models were used to analyze the influence of both auditory and visual variables on identification judgments.
    • A second experiment controlled for attentional differences by requiring children to monitor visual mouth movements.

    Main Results:

    • Both auditory and visual information influenced speech identification in both children and adults.
    • A fuzzy logical model of perception accurately described the integration of continuous, independent information sources for both age groups.
    • Preschool children showed a relatively weaker influence of visual information compared to adults, even when attention was controlled.

    Conclusions:

    • Preschool children and adults utilize both auditory and visual speech cues, but children integrate visual information less effectively.
    • The fuzzy logical model of perception provides a robust framework for understanding multisensory speech integration across development.
    • Developmental differences in speech perception are not solely attributable to attention but may involve more fundamental processing distinctions.

    Related Experiment Videos