How can audiovisual pathways enhance the temporal resolution of time-compressed speech in blind subjects?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Hertrich, Ingo ^a   Dietrich, Susanne ^a   Ackermann, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audiovisual pathways; Blindness; Speech perception; Speech timing; Time compressed speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885352072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00530     Document Type: Article

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