Speech Perception in Audiovisual Communication

Hans Rutger Bosker heads the SPEAC lab at the Donders Institute of Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Speech perception

We investigate how the human brain perceives sounds and words from speech.

Audiovisual integration

We do not only listen with our ears but also with our eyes, using lip movements and carefully-timed hand gestures to perceive speech.

Gesture-speech coupling

A key question in our group concerns how the temporal alignment between gesture and speech shapes what we hear.

Methods

We use behavioral, eye-tracking, virtual reality, and neuroimaging methods in our experiments.

Research tools

We also develop and openly distribute research tools that support and speed up data collection, annotation, and analysis.

Latest news

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Several new preprints out!

We have a bunch of new preprints out! Read them here…

Oct 16, 2024

Podcast Alledaagse Vragen

Ik mocht een bijdrage leveren aan de podcast Alledaagse Vragen #183. Wil jij weten waarom we eigenlijk ‘uh’ zeggen? Beluister het antwoord dan hier!

Sep 11, 2024

Teaching at LOT Summer School 2024

I’m teaching a 5-day Prosody in Speech Perception course at the LOT Summer School 2024 in Leiden. You can find all materials here!

Jun 17, 2024

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Demos

Try out these audiovisual illusions, speech tricks, and other hocus-pocus…

Who we are…

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Speech Perception in Audiovisual Communication

Speech perception

Audiovisual integration

Gesture-speech coupling

Methods

Research tools

Latest news

Demos

Manual McGurk effect

Conjuring up words that were never spoken

Repackaging speech

Cocktail party listening

Look and listen

Laurel or Yanny?

Lombard speech

Who we are…