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Audiovisual temporal sensitivity in typical and dyslexia adult readers

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Publication date2014
Host publicationProceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014)
EditorsHaizhou Li, Helen M. Meng, Bin Ma, Engsiong Chng, Lei Xie
Pages2575-2579
Number of pages5
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventInterspeech 2014 : 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 14/09/201418/09/2014

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ConferenceInterspeech 2014
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period14/09/1418/09/14

Conference

ConferenceInterspeech 2014
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period14/09/1418/09/14

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.