Auditory-tactile speech perception in congenitally blind and sighted adults

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3683-3686

  Sato, Marc ^a   Cavé, Christian ^b   Ménard, Lucie ^c,d   Brasseur, Annie ^c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audio tactile interactions; Blindness; Multimodality; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; GESTURE; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

EID: 77957300595     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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