ISCA Archive AVSP 1997
ISCA Archive AVSP 1997

Impairment of visual speech integration in prosopagnosia

Beatrice de Gelder, Nancy Etcoff, Jean Vroomen

Our study of a prosopagnosic patient LH shows a strong association between severe face processing deficits and loss of speechreading skills. With simple dynamic stimuli some speechreading ability seems preserved but it is insufficient to affect the processing of auditory input and to generate audiovisual blends or to provoke cross-modal bias.