Psychobiological Responses Reveal Audiovisual Noise Differentially Challenges Speech Recognition

Conclusions: Collectively, results suggest listeners (1) depend heavily on the auditory over visual channel when seeing and hearing speech and (2) alter their visual strategy from viewing the mouth to viewing the eyes of a talker with signal degradations, which negatively affects speech perception.
Source: Ear and Hearing - Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research