Shared and modality-specific brain regions that mediate auditory and visual word comprehension

The comprehension of acoustic and visual speech depends on modality-specific pathways in the brain, which explains why auditory speech abilities and lip reading are not associated in typical adults.

fMRI results. (A) Spectrograms of the stimulus continuum between

Regions of interests (i.e., masks) in the superior temporal lobes

Stimuli, experimental design and semantic models. (Fig. 1a) Early

Details of the experiment and of the stimuli contrast modulation

Illustration of the feature selection approaches. (A) The original

Decoding in all patients. Time course of the decoding accuracy

Vision perceptually restores auditory spectral dynamics in speech

ERP results. For different age groups, we illustrate examples of

Coupling of pupil- and neuronal population dynamics reveals

PDF) Impaired Speech Perception in Poor Readers: Evidence from

Spatial dynamics of behaviour--relevant brain activity. A

The experimental paradigm manipulated: visual input (present

Lip movements enhance speech representations and effective