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SUBMITTER: Jerger S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4940343 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jerger Susan S Damian Markus F MF Tye-Murray Nancy N Abdi Hervé H
Journal of child language 20160111 1
Adults use vision to perceive low-fidelity speech; yet how children acquire this ability is not well understood. The literature indicates that children show reduced sensitivity to visual speech from kindergarten to adolescence. We hypothesized that this pattern reflects the effects of complex tasks and a growth period with harder-to-utilize cognitive resources, not lack of sensitivity. We investigated sensitivity to visual speech in children via the phonological priming produced by low-fidelity ...[more]