Lip Movements Affect Infants' Audiovisual Speech Perception

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 603-612

  Yeung, H Henny ^a   Werker, Janet F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

audiovisual; infant; language development; multisensory; perceptual motor coordination; sensorimotor; speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877351240     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612458802     Document Type: Article

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