Speechreading skill and visual movement sensitivity are related in deaf speechreaders.
Individual speechreading abilities have been linked with a range of cognitive and language-processing factors. The role of specifically visual abilities in relation to the processing of visible speech is less studied. Here we report that the detection of coherent visible motion in random-dot kinematogram displays is related to speechreading skill in deaf, but not in hearing, speechreaders. A control task requiring the detection of visual form showed no such relationship. Additionally, people born deaf were better speechreaders than hearing people on a new test of silent speechreading.
Mohammed
Tara
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Department of Human Communication, University College London, Chandler House, London WC1N 1PF, UK.
Campbell
Ruth
R
MacSweeney
Mairéad
M
Milne
Elizabeth
E
Hansen
Peter
P
Coleman
Michael
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001076:Aptitude; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009039:Motion Perception; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D012684:Sensory Thresholds