Developmental Trajectory of Audiovisual Speech Integration in Early Infancy. A Review of Studies Using the McGurk Paradigm

Psychology of Language and Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 77-100

  Tomalski, Przemysław ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

audiovisual speech perception; event related potentials; eye tracking; Infant; McGurk effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946711670     PISSN: 12342238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/plc-2015-0006     Document Type: Article

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