Research by UC Riverside psychology Professor Lawrence D. Rosenblum and graduate students Rachel M. Miller and Kauyumari Sanchez has shown that experience seeing a person's face also makes it easier to hear them.
The research asked hearing subjects to lipread a speaker - and then later to listen to a speaker in background noise.
The subjects who listened to the speaker that they had previously lipread understood more than those who listened to a speaker that they had not previously lipread.
These findings suggest that when we watch a person speak, we become familiar with characteristics of their speaking style which also are present in the sound of their speech. This allows talker familiarity to be transferred from lip reading to listening, thereby making a talker easier to hear. These results have implications for individuals with hearing impairments as well as for brain lesion patients, Rosenblum said.
Article "Lip-Read Me Now, Hear Me Better Later: Crossmodal Transfer of Talker Familiarity Effects," Psychological Science. The full article can be downloaded from the Association of Psychological Science website.
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Newsflash
The RNID will be carrying out a research project into the provision of lipreading classes across England and Wales. The project is being run in conjunction with ATLA, Hearing Concern LINK and UKCoD. The project will be carried out in May/June 2010 and aims to look at lipreading class provision as a whole - including classes taught by ATLA members and other classes - to gain as accurate and complete a picture as possible. The data collected will be used to inform the campaign for lipreading classes in England and Wales. The RNID in Scotland has already carried out some research into lipreading class provision and thus Scotland is not included in this research project. A new section on the campaign and research is available for ATLA members - simply log in for access. |
