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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Proceedings papers accepted for Speech Prosody 2024

Several proceedings papers from our group have been accepted for presentation at Speech Prosody 2024. Read them here!

Mar 15, 2024

Proceedings papers accepted for Speech Prosody 2024

Paper accepted in Journal of Phonetics!

How do speakers of Dutch produce lexical stress? Read it in: “Your “VOORnaam” is not my “VOORnaam”: An acoustic analysis of individual talker differences in word stress in Dutch.”

Mar 5, 2024

A new PhD student joins the group: Chengjia Ye

Chengjia joined the group in Sept 2023 to test how the timing of hand gestures influences speech perception in more naturalistic listening conditions.

Sep 4, 2023