FLA5: Speech in Noise

*Girin et al., (2001) Audiovisual speech research

*Sekiyama et al., (2003) Audiovisual speech in the brain

Furnhman & Bradley (1997) Backgroud music while you work

 

•Materials
–Television, radio, or audio-capable computer
•Ability to play music or the news
–Person to speak with, some reading material for them
•Activity
–Your speaking partner will speak to you under 4 conditions
•Condition 1: Play some music fairly loudly
–Have your partner speak 3-5 sentences to you normally then while holding a piece of paper in front of his/her face
•Condition 2: Play a background talker  at the same loudness as the music (e.g., news on the radio or TV, dialogue on a television show, YouTube of a comedy show: NO MUSIC)
–Have your partner speak 3-5 sentences to you normally then while holding a piece of paper in front of his/her face
•Write-up: What was the effect of being able to see your partners lips while they were speaking?
•Was speech or music a more difficult background sound? Why do you think that might be?
–Were either of these background sounds more difficult when you could not see your partner’s mouth?
•Was your experience consistent with what you read or different? If so, how?


TURNITIN: 3065736, PW: perception

 

You will not receive a grade on this assignment until your work has passed plagiarism testing. Please worry less about writing a perfect paper, and just make sure I understand something about the article that you read and about your experience with the FLA. This is supposed to be a fun little assignment, so please don't hurt yourself over this.

 

From the syllabus - how to write up an FLA:

" Fun Little Assignments (FLAs) :FLAs will be your opportunity to play around with some of the experiments and ideas in Perception. For each of the FLAs you will do some background reading, then an experiment to test the idea on yourself or some unsuspecting passerby. For each FLA you should pick 1 article from the website to read for background. Then you will follow the online instructions on how to do the quick experiment. After completing the experiment you will write a short paper (400 to 600 words) that summarizes the article you read, and how the experiment went. Please turn in a typed, APA-style manuscript on the due date (12 pt Times-New Roman Font, 1-inch margins, double-spaced, etc).

Your article summary should give a short paragraph of introduction (what is interesting about this topic), then a few sentences describing what happened in the article you read using proper citations (NOTE** not having citations, or using improper citations are forms of plagiarism!). While you should discuss the article you read do not ever, not even once, for no reason whatsoever, use direct quotes. Always put things into your own words, even if they are not as poetic and scientific-y as the original ones. If you want to use a word or short-phrase coined by the article, you can make a tiny exception to the no-quoting rule. After you finish describing the article, discuss the fun little experiment you did! Tell me about your experience and the results you found when you did the test. There will be questions regarding the FLA online that you can use to guide your discussion. To close the manuscript, state clearly whether you think your results fit with the article that you read!

Grading will be completed using the following system: well-written, complete articles of the correct length will earn up to 40 pts. Deductions will be taken for partially incomplete articles, articles over/under the word limit, and badly written articles with poor or very incomplete summaries. Before credit is granted for completion of an assignment you MUST submit your FLA to http://www.turnitin.com – the anti-plagiarism website." (Gordon, 2009)