Priming the visual recognition of spoken words.
A preliminary investigation was conducted to understand the effects of word visibility and prime association factors on visual spoken word recognition in lipreading, using a related/ unrelated prime-target paradigm. Prime-target pairings were determined on the basis of paper-and-pencil word associations completed by 85 participants with normal hearing. Spoken targets included 60 single-syllable Modified Rhyme Test words, prerecorded on laser video disc. Participants included 20 individuals with normal hearing and at least average lipreading skill for sentence-length materials. In related prime-target pairings, more targets with a high prime association were identified than with a low prime association. In unrelated prime-target pairings, a larger number of more-visible than less-visible targets was correctly identified. Individual participant differences were not statistically significant. Results from the present study suggest implications for models of visual spoken word recognition.
Lansing
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CR
Department of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. crl@uiuc.edu
Helgeson
C L
CL
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D014796:Visual Perception; D014825:Vocabulary