Francisco, Ana A. and Jesse, Alexandra and Groen, Margriet Anna and McQueen, James M. (2014) Audiovisual temporal sensitivity in typical and dyslexia adult readers. In: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014). UNSPECIFIED, SGP, pp. 2575-2579. ISBN 9781634394352
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Reading is an audiovisual process that requires the learning of systematic links between graphemes and phonemes. It is thus possible that reading impairments reflect an audiovisual processing deficit. In this study, we compared audiovisual processing in adults with developmental dyslexia and adults without reading difficulties. We focused on differences in cross-modal temporal sensitivity both for speech and for non-speech events. When compared to adults without reading difficulties, adults with developmental dyslexia presented a wider temporal window in which unsynchronized speech events were perceived as synchronized. No differences were found between groups for the non-speech events. These results suggests a deficit in dyslexia in the perception of cross-modal temporal synchrony for speech events.