Performance in an Audiovisual Selective Attention Task Using Speech-Like Stimuli Depends on the Talker Identities, But Not Temporal Coherence.

Audiovisual integration of speech can benefit the listener by not only improving comprehension of what a talker is saying but also helping a listener select a particular talker's voice from a mixture of sounds. Binding, an early integration of auditory and visual streams that helps an observer allocate attention to a combined audiovisual object, is likely involved in processing audiovisual speech. Although temporal coherence of stimulus features across sensory modalities has been implicated as an important cue for non-speech stimuli (Maddox et al.