Biomaterial Database

Audio-visual discrimination of speech. 1979

B McCormick

Tests utilizing audio-visual presentations of speech may have more significance than has hitherto been recognized. Such tests appear to offer more reliable, more realistic and more reproducible measures of communication impairments than either auditory speech discrimination tests, or visual speech discrimination tests.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008085	Lipreading	The process by which an observer comprehends speech by watching the movements of the speaker's lips without hearing the speaker's voice.	Speechreading,Lip Reading,Lip Readings,Lipreadings,Reading, Lip,Readings, Lip,Speechreadings
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D010700	Phonetics	The science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)	Speech Sounds,Sound, Speech,Sounds, Speech,Speech Sound
D003463	Cues	Signals for an action; that specific portion of a perceptual field or pattern of stimuli to which a subject has learned to respond.	Cue
D003638	Deafness	A general term for the complete loss of the ability to hear from both ears.	Deafness Permanent,Hearing Loss Permanent,Prelingual Deafness,Deaf Mutism,Deaf-Mutism,Deafness, Acquired,Hearing Loss, Complete,Hearing Loss, Extreme,Acquired Deafness,Complete Hearing Loss,Deafness, Prelingual,Extreme Hearing Loss,Permanent, Deafness,Permanent, Hearing Loss,Permanents, Deafness
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D001307	Auditory Perception	The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organized, and interpreted by the organism.	Auditory Processing,Perception, Auditory,Processing, Auditory
D013063	Speech Discrimination Tests	Tests of the ability to hear and understand speech as determined by scoring the number of words in a word list repeated correctly.	Discrimination Test, Speech,Discrimination Tests, Speech,Speech Discrimination Test,Test, Speech Discrimination,Tests, Speech Discrimination
D013067	Speech Perception	The process whereby an utterance is decoded into a representation in terms of linguistic units (sequences of phonetic segments which combine to form lexical and grammatical morphemes).	Speech Discrimination,Discrimination, Speech,Perception, Speech