Abstract
Reading is an audiovisual process that requires the learning of systematic links between graphemes and phonemes. It is thus possible that reading impairments reflect an audiovisual processing deficit. In this study, we compared audiovisual processing in adults with developmental dyslexia and adults without reading difficulties. We focused on differences in cross-modal temporal sensitivity both for speech and for non-speech events. When compared to adults without reading difficulties, adults with developmental dyslexia presented a wider temporal window in which unsynchronized speech events were perceived as synchronized. No differences were found between groups for the non-speech events. These results suggests a deficit in dyslexia in the perception of cross-modal temporal synchrony for speech events.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2575-2579 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
State | Published - 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages, INTERSPEECH 2014 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: Sep 14 2014 → Sep 18 2014 |
Keywords
- Cross-modal temporal sensitivity
- Dyslexia
- Speech perception
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Signal Processing
- Software
- Modeling and Simulation