Study suggests we can recognize speakers only from how faces move when talking

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Results of a new study by cognitive psychologist and speech scientist Alexandra Jesse and her linguistics undergraduate student Michael Bartoli at the University of Massachusetts Amherst should help to settle a long-standing disagreement among cognitive psychologists about the information we use to recognize people speaking to us. The study shows that listeners can use visual dynamic features to learn to recognize who is talking.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2H9eZC6