Cued spatial attention modulates functionally relevant alpha rhythms in visual cortices in humans. Here, we present evidence for analogous phenomena in primary somatosensory neocortex (SI). Using magnetoencephalography, we measured changes in the SI mu rhythm containing mu-alpha (7-14 Hz) and mu-beta (15-29 Hz) components. We found that cued attention impacted mu-alpha in the somatopically loca...

Manual Cued Speech is an effective method used to enhance speech perception for hearing-impaired people. Thanks to this system, a speaker can clarify what has been said with the help of hand gestures. Seeing manual cues associated to lip shapes allows the cue receiver to identify speech elements unambiguously. A large amount of work has been devoted to Cued Speech effectiveness in visual identi...

Manual Cued Speech is an effective method used to enhance speech perception for deaf and hearing-impaired people. Thanks to this system, a speaker can disambiguate similar lip shapes by the addition of a manual cue near the face. While Cued Speech effectiveness for language acquisition is well-known, very few works aimed at investigating the temporal organization of Cued Speech production, i.e....

Two experiments examined the hypothesis that developing visual attentional mechanisms influence infants' Visual Short-Term Memory (VSTM) in the context of multiple items. Five- and 10-month-old infants (N = 76) received a change detection task in which arrays of three differently colored squares appeared and disappeared. On each trial one square changed color and one square was cued; sometimes ...

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