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.

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

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

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

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

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Watch this new video showing some of the lab facilities at the Donders Centre for Cognition (DCC).

Dec 12, 2024

The 26th edition of the Interspeech conference is to be held in Rotterdam, August 17-21, 2025.

Dec 5, 2024

The 10th conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 10) is coming to Nijmegen on July 9-11, 2025.

Nov 15, 2024

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