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Speaker Identity Supports Phonetic Category Learning
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Mani, Nivedita; Schneider, Signe – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Visual cues from the speaker's face, such as the discriminable mouth movements used to produce speech sounds, improve discrimination of these sounds by adults. The speaker's face, however, provides more information than just the mouth movements used to produce speech--it also provides a visual indexical cue of the identity of the speaker. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Speech Communication
Preschool-Age Children and Adults Flexibly Shift Their Preferences for Auditory versus Visual Modalities but Do Not Exhibit Auditory Dominance
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Noles, Nicholaus S.; Gelman, Susan A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The goal of this study was to evaluate the claim that young children display preferences for auditory stimuli over visual stimuli. This study was motivated by concerns that the visual stimuli employed in prior studies were considerably more complex and less distinctive than the competing auditory stimuli, resulting in an illusory preference for…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Cues, Auditory Stimuli, Preschool Children