Visual speech cues improve children's processing speed in both quiet and noise

Rebecca Holt; Laurence Bruggeman; Katherine Demuth

Visual speech cues improve children's processing speed in both quiet and noise

Rebecca Holt, Laurence Bruggeman, Katherine Demuth

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The presence of visual cues can facilitate speech processing in adults, conferring an ‘audiovisual (AV) benefit’ in noisy listening conditions. However, it is unclear to what extent such benefits extend to quiet conditions and to children. A phoneme monitoring task was used to determine whether 7-11 year-old children show an AV benefit for accuracy and/or speed of processing in either quiet or noise, and whether the magnitude of this benefit differs between listening conditions. An AV benefit for processing speed was found, unaffected by listening conditions. This suggests that visual speech cues can be used by children to facilitate speech processing generally, not just in noise. We therefore believe that visual speech cues may be used to assist children to rapidly process speech in everyday situations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Editors	Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, Paul Warren
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
Pages	2514-2518
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9780646800691
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (19th : 2019) - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 9 Aug 2019

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Conference	International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (19th : 2019)
Abbreviated title	ICPhS2019
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	5/08/19 → 9/08/19

Keywords

sentence processing
audiovisual
children
noise
phoneme monitoring

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Holt, R., Bruggeman, L., & Demuth, K. (2019). Visual speech cues improve children's processing speed in both quiet and noise. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2514-2518). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA). https://assta.org/proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_2563.pdf

Holt, Rebecca ; Bruggeman, Laurence ; Demuth, Katherine. / Visual speech cues improve children's processing speed in both quiet and noise. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. editor / Sasha Calhoun ; Paola Escudero ; Marija Tabain ; Paul Warren. Canberra : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), 2019. pp. 2514-2518

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Holt, R, Bruggeman, L & Demuth, K 2019, Visual speech cues improve children's processing speed in both quiet and noise. in S Calhoun, P Escudero, M Tabain & P Warren (eds), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), Canberra, pp. 2514-2518, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (19th : 2019), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5/08/19. <https://assta.org/proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_2563.pdf>

Visual speech cues improve children's processing speed in both quiet and noise. / Holt, Rebecca; Bruggeman, Laurence; Demuth, Katherine.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ed. / Sasha Calhoun; Paola Escudero; Marija Tabain; Paul Warren. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), 2019. p. 2514-2518.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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