Since its discovery 40 years ago, the McGurk illusion has been usually cited as a
prototypical paradigmatic case of multisensory binding in humans, and has been extensively …

Seeing articulatory movements influences perception of auditory speech. This is often
reflected in a shortened latency of auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) generated in the …

During communication in real-life settings, our brain often needs to integrate auditory and
visual information and at the same time actively focus on the relevant sources of information …

The interplay between attention and multisensory integration has proven to be a difficult
question to tackle. There are almost as many studies showing that multisensory integration …

Apart from their remarkable phonological skills young infants prior to their first birthday show
ability to match the mouth articulation they see with the speech sounds they hear. They are …

Background and aims Fascinations for or aversions to particular sounds are a familiar
feature of autism, as is an ability to reproduce another person's utterances, precisely copying …

Traditionally, speech perception training paradigms have not adequately taken into account
the possibility that there may be modality-specific requirements for perceptual learning with …

Natural speech is processed in the brain as a mixture of auditory and visual features. An
example of the importance of visual speech is the McGurk effect and related perceptual …

Although it is well known that attention can modulate multisensory processes in adults and
infants, this relationship has not been investigated in school-age children. Attention abilities …

Human communication is inherently multimodal. Auditory speech but also visual cues can
be used to understand another talker. This is especially known about the perception of …