Asymmetries in unimodal visual vowel perception: The roles of oral-facial kinematics, orientation, and configuration.
Masapollo, Polka, and Ménard (2017) recently reported a robust directional asymmetry in unimodal visual vowel perception: Adult perceivers discriminate a change from an English /u/ viseme to a French /u/ viseme significantly better than a change in the reverse direction. This asymmetry replicates a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance Vol. 44; no. 7; pp. 1103 - 1119 |
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American Psychological Association
Jul2018
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