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This confirms the fact that a greater degree of visual influence was seen for adults Group A clear A noise V than for children. Chinese Children In regard to English Children Chinese and English Adults However, the difference between the Table 1.

Standard deviation measures are given in There was no evidence of a greater magnitude of this Similarly, in the V-only speechreading condition, the speaker-language effect in children than adults. To explicitly test the hypothesis that children are poor lip-readers and thus use less visual information in the AV condition, a correlation between the proportion correct responses in V-only condition and the total visual effect was calculated.

Conclusions 5. References The current study aimed to provide a better [1] Sumby, W. This Acoustical Society of America, Vol. Dodd and R. However, in the noisy Ltd, condition, the increase of visual effect across the two age [3] McGurk, H.

The differences in the performance of [4] Massaro, D. In sum, an evident developmental increase of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. Furthermore, contrary to some Processing, St. Jorioz, France, , p previous studies, there was no difference in visual effect [8] Sekiyama, K.

It should be noted [9] Werker, J. Proceed to Checkout. Related Teacher Tools Takeout Items. Assessing and Practicing Vowel and Consonant Perception Materials and activities for working with students during auditory practice The DTAP uses a simple response format easily understood and accommodated even by children in the primary grades.

Using various language-related as well as non-language-related sounds, pairs of stimuli are presented and examinees indicate whether the pairs are the same or different. The DTAP can be administered by psychologists, speech-language pathologists, general and special educators, neuropsychologists, and diagnosticians who are interested in examining the auditory perception status of school-age children. The BNI requires the examinee to extract and perceive accurately a target set of sounds from background noise.

ITEM: DTAP is a battery of 5 item sets that measure different, but interrelated, aspects of auditory perception. It assess auditory perception without in The audio was set at comfortable listening level 70 dB-A visual peak reading with fast scale from Bruel and Kjaer Type sound level meter. A ms bell preceded each trial in the bimodal condition. The silent interval between the bell and the onset of the speech sound ranged from I to ms. Trials in the visual-only condition used the same tape; however, the sound on the television monitor was turned down completely so that only the visual information was presented without a warning tone.

In both conditions, the subjects had about 6 s to make a response before the next trial. In both conditions, the experimenter sat next to the monitor and facing the child to determine whether he or she was watching the screen at the time of the speech presentation. If this criterion was not met, the trial was disregarded.

The children made their response by oral report. The adults were told to report what they heard the speaker say in the bimodal condition and to be sure that they were watching the speaker on every trial.

For the visual-only condition, they were told to lip-read. The adults wrote their responses on an answer sheet and were left alone during the experiment. All subjects were tested for two sessions. There were four blocks of 20 trials during each test session. Subjects always began a session with a bimodal block, and alternated between bimodal and visual-only blocks.

Athough the bimodal block was always given first, these two conditions were counterbalanced in Experiment 3 without producing any differences in the results. After each session, the child was given choice of a toy. Results and Discussion The results from each group of subjects were analyzed separately for the two experimental conditions. OOl, respectively. As can be seen in Fig. This result provides a replication of the Massaro study. If children were much more sensitive to the auditory continuum than were adults, this might reduce the effect of the visual source for the children relative to the adults.

Massaro found no difference between children and adults when the auditory continuum was presented without the speaker moving his mouth. Thus, the group dif- ferences with respect to the size of the visual effect appear to be due to differences in the processing of the visual source. An analysis of variance was performed on the average proportions of correct identifications in the visual-only condition. The adult subjects were much better at lip-reading than children, H.

The average proportion of correct responses ranged from 0. A larger difference between these two probabilities yields a larger visual effect. Figure 2 gives the regression line for the combined results.

Thus, the obtained results clearly show a strong positive relationship between the ability to lip-read and the extent of the visual influence in bimodal speech perception. A third level of the visual variable in which the speaker did not move his mouth was included to increase the number of experimental conditions and provide a stronger test of the models.

The study extends the Massaro study to younger children and evaluates additional explanations of the decreased visual influence for young children. To further explore an attentional hypothesis as a contribution to the smaller visual effect in the children, we used two indices that may correlate with individual differences in visual effect.

The second indicator was a calculation of the number of missed trials trials that could not be counted because the subject was not looking at the speaker. In addition, we assessed the correlations of the size of the visual effect with age and sex. Stimuli and Procedure The stimuli were identical to those used in the bimodal conditions of Experiment 1 and included trials in which the speaker did not move his lips during presentation of the auditory speech.

The 15 experimental conditions were sampled randomly without replacement in blocks of 15 trials. The procedure was identical to that used in Experiment 1. Some children also hit one of two buttons on opposite sides of a box in addition to the oral response. One button was marked with the letters BA and a picture of a ball and the other with DA and a duck. The buttons could be hit without looking at them and did not distract the children from looking at the television monitor.

Children usually had one or two sessions of 30 trials on a given day. The children were tested at various times during a 6-week period. The subjects were tested for a total of trials, giving up to 16 observations at each of the 15 unique experimental conditions. The ratings were on a scale of 1 worst to 10 best. Generally, the ratings were based on attentiveness and ability to focus on the task. The predictions are for the fuzzy logical model of perception.

At an ambiguous auditory level Level 3 , this same difference is 0. The magnitude of the visual effect can be compared directly to that observed in the Massaro study since the experimental design was equivalent. Only two of the five levels of the auditory stimulus were used in both studies, so the comparison must be limited to these two conditions. The size of the visual effect for these two conditions in Massaro averaged 0.

In the present study, the children gave an average visual effect of 0. Thus, there is additional evidence that children show a smaller influence of the visual variable than do adults. To assess for any practice effects, the data were also analyzed as a function of first and second trial blocks, with trials per block.

There was no main effect of practice, and practice did not interact with the other variables in the experiment. Post hoc correlations were carried out to assess the relationship between the magnitude of the effects of the auditory and visual sources and four predictor variables. Although both age and the ratings significantly correlated -. None of the four prediction variables significantly correlated with the magnitude of the auditory source.

Thus, children who tended to miss trials because they failed to look at the screen showed a smaller effect of the visual articulation, even when they were looking at the screen. However, this correlation does not seem to illuminate the reason for the smaller effect.

If a child obtains less information from the visual variable, it is only natural to be less motivated to look at the screen.