title: Effects of talker variability on speechreading.
abstract: The effects of talker variability on visual speech perception were tested by having subjects speechread sentences from either single-talker or mixed-talker sentence lists. Results revealed that changes in talker from trial to trial decreased speechreading performance. To help determine whether this decrement was due to talker change--and not a change in superficial characteristics of the stimuli--Experiment 2 tested speechreading from visual stimuli whose images were tinted by a single color, or mixed colors. Results revealed that the mixed-color lists did not inhibit speechreading performance relative to the single-color lists. These results are analogous to findings in the auditory speech literature and suggest that, like auditory speech, visual speech operations include a resource-demanding component that is influenced by talker variability.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Yakel
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Rosenblum
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Fortier
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics