Aims Previous studies and community information about everyday difficulties in age-related
macular degeneration (AMD) have focussed on domains such as reading and driving. Here …

The McGurk effect is an illusion in which visual speech information dramatically alters the
perception of auditory speech. However, there is a high degree of individual variability in …

The quantification of vision impairments dates to the mid-nineteenth century with
standardization of visual acuity and visual field measures in the eye clinic. Attempts to …

Purpose The aim of this article is to examine the effects of visual image degradation on
performance and gaze behavior in audiovisual and visual-only speech perception tasks …

Background Dual sensory loss (DSL) has a negative impact on health and wellbeing and its
prevalence is expected to increase due to demographic aging. However, specialized care or …

Speech understanding is improved when the observer can both see and hear the talker.
This study compared the effects of reduced visual acuity on auditory-visual (AV) …

Audiovisual speech perception is an everyday occurrence of multisensory integration.
Conflicting visual speech information can influence the perception of acoustic speech …

Objectives: Dual sensory loss (DSL; concurrent vision and hearing loss) negatively affects
quality of life. As speechreading is hampered, use of hearing aids (HAs) is important for …

Unlike most neural language models, humans learn language in a rich, multi-sensory and,
often, multi-lingual environment. Current language models typically fail to fully capture the …

Speech understanding is generally improved when the visual-speech cues produced by a
talker are provided along with the auditory signal. This finding is observed among younger …