Stable eye versus mouth preference in a live speech-processing task
Viktorsson, Charlotte ; Valtakari, Niilo V ; Falck-Ytter, Terje ; Hooge, Ignace T C LU ; Rudling, Maja LU
and Hessels, Roy S
(2023)
In Scientific Reports
13(1).
- Abstract
Looking at the mouth region is thought to be a useful strategy for speech-perception tasks. The tendency to look at the eyes versus the mouth of another person during speech processing has thus far mainly been studied using screen-based paradigms. In this study, we estimated the eye-mouth-index (EMI) of 38 adult participants in a live setting. Participants were seated across the table from an experimenter, who read sentences out loud for the participant to remember in both a familiar (English) and unfamiliar (Finnish) language. No statistically significant difference in the EMI between the familiar and the unfamiliar languages was observed. Total relative looking time at the mouth also did not predict the number of correctly identified... (More)
Looking at the mouth region is thought to be a useful strategy for speech-perception tasks. The tendency to look at the eyes versus the mouth of another person during speech processing has thus far mainly been studied using screen-based paradigms. In this study, we estimated the eye-mouth-index (EMI) of 38 adult participants in a live setting. Participants were seated across the table from an experimenter, who read sentences out loud for the participant to remember in both a familiar (English) and unfamiliar (Finnish) language. No statistically significant difference in the EMI between the familiar and the unfamiliar languages was observed. Total relative looking time at the mouth also did not predict the number of correctly identified sentences. Instead, we found that the EMI was higher during an instruction phase than during the speech-processing task. Moreover, we observed high intra-individual correlations in the EMI across the languages and different phases of the experiment. We conclude that there are stable individual differences in looking at the eyes versus the mouth of another person. Furthermore, this behavior appears to be flexible and dependent on the requirements of the situation (speech processing or not).
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- author
- Viktorsson, Charlotte
; Valtakari, Niilo V
; Falck-Ytter, Terje
; Hooge, Ignace T C
LU
; Rudling, Maja
LU
and Hessels, Roy S
- publishing date
- 2023-08-08
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Adult, Humans, Speech, Eye, Speech Perception, Language, Face, Face processing, Live eye tracking, Social interaction, Speech processing
- in
- Scientific Reports
- volume
- 13
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 12878
- publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85167370552
- pmid:37553414
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-023-40017-8
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- © 2023. Springer Nature Limited.
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- 47b56341-f22d-4bd2-add4-d48c8ecd64db
- date added to LUP
- 2023-08-24 12:53:31
- date last changed
- 2024-04-20 02:37:12
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