Background Manifestations of core social deficits in autism are more pronounced in
everyday settings than in explicit experimental tasks. To bring experimental measures in line …

It is generally well known that speech perception is often improved with integrated
audiovisual input whether in quiet or in noise. In many health-care environments, however …

Neurophysiological research suggests that understanding the actions of others harnesses
neural circuits that would be used to produce those actions directly. We used fMRI to …

Generally, learning to decode printed English has been a difficult skill to master for children
who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). The purpose of this review was to examine the …

In this study, we investigated where people look on talkers' faces as they try to understand
what is being said. Sixteen young adults with normal hearing and demonstrated average …

Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that visual information related to
segmental versus prosodic aspects of speech is distributed differently on the face of the …

Teachers and students are wearing face masks in many classrooms to limit the spread of the
coronavirus. Face masks disrupt speech understanding by concealing lip-reading cues and …

Seeing a talker's face influences auditory speech recognition, but the visible input essential
for this influence has yet to be established. Using a new seamless editing technique, the …

Clinical measures of speech intelligibility are widely used as one means of characterizing
the speech of individuals with dysarthria. Many variables associated with both the speaker …

The bimodal perception of speech sounds was examined in children with autism as
compared to mental age—matched typically developing (TD) children. A computer task was …