Assessing the role of attention in the audiovisual integration of speech

Information Fusion

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-11

  Navarra, Jordi ^a,b   Alsius, Agnès ^c   Soto Faraco, Salvador ^d,e   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a University of Barcelona   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Automaticity; Multisensory integration; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDIO-VISUAL INTEGRATION; AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH; AUTOMATICITY; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; SENSORY MODALITY; SENSORY SIGNALS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 68349154634     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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