AUTHOR=Bhat Jyoti , Pitt Mark A. , Shahin Antoine J. TITLE=Visual context due to speech-reading suppresses the auditory response to acoustic interruptions in speech JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroscience VOLUME=8 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2014.00173 DOI=10.3389/fnins.2014.00173 ISSN=1662-453X ABSTRACT=
Speech reading enhances auditory perception in noise. One means by which this perceptual facilitation comes about is through information from visual networks reinforcing the encoding of the congruent speech signal by ignoring interfering acoustic signals. We tested this hypothesis neurophysiologically by acquiring EEG while individuals listened to words with a fixed portion of each word replaced by white noise. Congruent (meaningful) or incongruent (reversed frames) mouth movements accompanied the words. Individuals judged whether they heard the words as continuous (