Re: AUDITORY Digest - 7 Sep 2001 to 14 Sep 2001 (#2001-172)

[Norbert Kopco <kopco@xxxxxx>]

Dear Al and list,

Driver (1996) reports a result that seems relevant to your
query. However, the Driver's results were supposedly hard to
replicate.

Best,

Norbert

Driver, J. (1996). "Enhancement of selective listening by illusory
mislocation of speech sounds due to lip-reading," Nature 381,66-68.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:02:28AM -0400, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:28:43 -0400
> From:    Al Bregman <al.bregman@MCGILL.CA>
> Subject: Speech intelligibility and spatial information
>
> Dear list,
>
> Does anybody know the answer to this?
>
> Suppose a person (P) is talking in a background of other speech
> sounds.  Does anybody know of data that tell whether  the
> intelligibility of P's speech  increases when the listener is
> presented with visual information which gives the exact location
> of P in space?  There is a computer model by Nakagawa, Okuno, and
> Kitano (AAAI-99)  that makes this assumption, but are there any
> data on human listeners?  I am asking only about spatial
> information supplied by vision, not spatial information derived
> by the auditory system from the signal itself.
>
> Al
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