The McGurk effect in the time of pandemic: Age-dependent adaptation to a partial loss of visual speech cues

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F21%3A00536636" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/21:00536636 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11210/21:10440865

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-020-01852-2" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-020-01852-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01852-2" target="_blank" >10.3758/s13423-020-01852-2</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The McGurk effect in the time of pandemic: Age-dependent adaptation to a partial loss of visual speech cues

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Seeing a person's mouth move for [ga] while hearing [ba] often results in the perception of “da.” Such audiovisual integration of speech cues, known as the McGurk effect, is stable within but variable across individuals. When the visual or auditory cues are degraded, due to signal distortion or the perceiver's sensory impairment, reliance on cues via the impoverished modality decreases. This study tested whether cue-reliance adjustments due to exposure to reduced cue availability are persistent and transfer to subsequent perception of speech with all cues fully available. A McGurk experiment was administered at the beginning and after a month of mandatory face-mask wearing (enforced in Czechia during the 2020 pandemic). Responses to audio-visually incongruent stimuli were analyzed from 292 persons (ages 16-55), representing a cross-sectional sample, and 41 students (ages 19-27), representing a longitudinal sample. The extent to which the participants relied exclusively on visual cues was affected by testing time in interaction with age. After a month of reduced access to lipreading, reliance on visual cues (present at test) somewhat lowered for younger and increased for older persons. This implies that adults adapt their speech perception faculty to an altered environmental availability of multimodal cues, and that younger adults do so more efficiently. This finding demonstrates that besides sensory impairment or signal noise, which reduce cue availability and thus affect audio-visual cue reliance, having experienced a change in environmental conditions can modulate the perceiver's (otherwise relatively stable) general bias towards different modalities during speech communication.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The McGurk effect in the time of pandemic: Age-dependent adaptation to a partial loss of visual speech cues

Popis výsledku anglicky

Seeing a person's mouth move for [ga] while hearing [ba] often results in the perception of “da.” Such audiovisual integration of speech cues, known as the McGurk effect, is stable within but variable across individuals. When the visual or auditory cues are degraded, due to signal distortion or the perceiver's sensory impairment, reliance on cues via the impoverished modality decreases. This study tested whether cue-reliance adjustments due to exposure to reduced cue availability are persistent and transfer to subsequent perception of speech with all cues fully available. A McGurk experiment was administered at the beginning and after a month of mandatory face-mask wearing (enforced in Czechia during the 2020 pandemic). Responses to audio-visually incongruent stimuli were analyzed from 292 persons (ages 16-55), representing a cross-sectional sample, and 41 students (ages 19-27), representing a longitudinal sample. The extent to which the participants relied exclusively on visual cues was affected by testing time in interaction with age. After a month of reduced access to lipreading, reliance on visual cues (present at test) somewhat lowered for younger and increased for older persons. This implies that adults adapt their speech perception faculty to an altered environmental availability of multimodal cues, and that younger adults do so more efficiently. This finding demonstrates that besides sensory impairment or signal noise, which reduce cue availability and thus affect audio-visual cue reliance, having experienced a change in environmental conditions can modulate the perceiver's (otherwise relatively stable) general bias towards different modalities during speech communication.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-01799S" target="_blank" >GA18-01799S: Vliv akcentu mluvčího na osvojování si hlásek mateřského jazyka</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

ISSN

1069-9384

e-ISSN

1531-5320

Svazek periodika

28

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

992-1002

Kód UT WoS článku

000607765100004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85100185654