Course Description
Video Introduction
Course Overview
How can speech be understood just by watching face movements? In these lectures, I outline some principles of speechreading as a psychological process, and some neuropsychological aspects of speechreading, based on work with patients with localised brain lesions. Finally, I will describe some neural correlates of the skill, as established from neuroimaging studies, and place these in the context of the cortical correlates of other visual, communicative and language processes.
Course Outline and Core Readings
Presenter
Professor Ruth Campbell
Presenter Biography
I graduated from The University of Reading (1970) and then completed a PhD supervised by Professor Max Coltheart at Birkbeck College, London, in 1979. After a post-doctoral year in Toronto, I returned to London and worked at University College London as a researcher. I then took faculty posts at the University of Oxford and at Goldsmiths College, before returning to University College London in 1996. In 2005, I was one of a small team who started up a specialised research centre in Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL). I have been working on neural bases for speechreading and for sign language processing for the last 12 years, as well as conducting neuropsychological and behavioural studies related to face and speech processing in various groups.