Summerfield (1987) proposed several accounts of audiovisual speech perception, a field of research that has burgeoned in recent years. The proposed accounts included the integration of discrete phonetic features, vectors describing the values of independent acoustical and optical parameters, the filter function of the vocal tract, and articulatory dynamics of the vocal tract. The latter two ac...

Besides big Hollywood productions, like The Godfather trilogy, and video-on-demand Sopranos, both filmed in English, new popular Italian based on the linguistic cultural representation of Mafia Anti-Mafia, have gained momentum. Nonetheless, body academic research traits former is larger than latter. This study aims to investigate how by which strategies lexicon culture-bound terms related conce...

In this article, we discuss the multi-layered collaboration occurring among students, between students and teachers, instructors in context of an advanced Italian course at college level. We specifically showcase project-based learning activity Ma chi parla? (Who Is Talking?), during which generated audiovisual translation from English to film television show excerpts. argue that, its implement...

AIM To evaluate whether the parental perception of the patient's anxiety, children's anxiety, pain, behaviour and heart rate of paediatric patients improves when an audiovisual technique is used as a distraction method during dental treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS This non-randomised crossover trial was performed with 34 patients aged 6-8 years, who required a minimum of two treatment visits...

Objectives This study aimed to explore faculty and students perceptions on the qualities of good medical teachers, and to determine whether the opinions of faculty and students differed. Methods Two quantitative surveys were performed at Qassim University College of Medicine using a pretested self-administered questionnaire distributed to the faculty and students of the college. It captured t...

A modern text is seldom a stand-alone product consisting merely of writing, but a multimodal body of signs from different meaning-making systems. The multimodal context and the new forms of translation, in which the concept of ‘text’ goes beyond language, have become increasingly relevant in contemporary translation research and practice. In order to study multimodal context and intermodal form...

Purpose Because reading is an audiovisual process, reading impairment may reflect an audiovisual processing deficit. The aim of the present study was to test the existence and scope of such a deficit in adult readers with dyslexia. Method We tested 39 typical readers and 51 adult readers with dyslexia on their sensitivity to the simultaneity of audiovisual speech and nonspeech stimuli, their ...