Multisensory and sensorimotor interactions in speech perception

• Main Author: Riikka Mottonen (auth)
• Other Authors: Jean Luc Schwartz (auth), Kaisa Tiippana (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Learning; somatosensory; Cognitive Disorders; sensorimotor; neural processing; Perception; Speech; audiovisual; multisensory; McGurk effect
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Speech is multisensory since it is perceived through several senses. Audition is the most important one as speech is mostly heard. The role of vision has long been acknowledged since many articulatory gestures can be seen on the talker's face. Sometimes speech can even be felt by touching the f...