Discriminating speech rhythms in audition, vision, and touch.

Journal article

We investigated the extent to which people can discriminate between languages on the basis of their characteristic temporal, rhythmic information, and the extent to which this ability generalizes across sensory modalities. We used rhythmical patterns derived from the alternation of vowels and consonants in English and Japanese, presented in audition, vision, both audition and vision at the same time, or touch. Experiment 1 confirmed that discrimination is possible on the basis of auditory rhy...

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Authors: Navarra, J; Soto-Faraco, S; Spence, C

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Journal: Acta psychologica
• Volume: 151
• Pages: 197-205
• Publication date: 2014-09-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.05.021
• EISSN: 1873-6297
• ISSN: 0001-6918
• Language: English
• Keywords: Visual Perception; Female; Humans; Reaction Time; Touch Perception; Hearing; Speech Perception; Touch; Periodicity; Vision, Ocular; Adult; Male; Auditory Perception; Young Adult; Speech