The development of audiovisual speech perception

Multisensory Development

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Soto Faraco, Salvador ^a   Calabresi, Marco ^a   Navarra, Jordi ^b   Werker, Janet F ^c   Lewkowicz, David J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiovisual integration; Audiovisual speech; Bimodal speech; Development; Language acquisition; Multisensory; Multisensory development; Speech perception; Speech reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921604215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586059.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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