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SUBMITTER: Kaplan E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6719704 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaplan Elina E Jesse Alexandra A
Biological psychology 20190716
In face-to-face conversations, when listeners process and combine information obtained from hearing and seeing a speaker, they mostly look at the eyes rather than at the more informative mouth region. Measuring event-related potentials, we tested whether fixating the speaker's eyes is sufficient for gathering enough visual speech information to modulate early auditory processing, or whether covert attention to the speaker's mouth is needed. Results showed that when listeners fixated the eye regi ...[more]