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SUBMITTER: Maffei V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304574 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maffei Vincenzo V Indovina Iole I Mazzarella Elisabetta E Giusti Maria Assunta MA Macaluso Emiliano E Lacquaniti Francesco F Viviani Paolo P
PloS one 20200619 6
When looking at a speaking person, the analysis of facial kinematics contributes to language discrimination and to the decoding of the time flow of visual speech. To disentangle these two factors, we investigated behavioural and fMRI responses to familiar and unfamiliar languages when observing speech gestures with natural or reversed kinematics. Twenty Italian volunteers viewed silent video-clips of speech shown as recorded (Forward, biological motion) or reversed in time (Backward, non-biologi ...[more]