Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 205-216 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Perception |
| Volume | 34 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2005 |