Integration efficiency for speech perception within and across sensory modalities by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired individuals.

@article{Grant2007IntegrationEF,
  title={Integration efficiency for speech perception within and across sensory modalities by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired individuals.},
  author={Ken W. Grant and Jennifer Tufts and Steven Greenberg},
  journal={The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year={2007},
  volume={121 2},
  pages={
          1164-76
        }
}
In face-to-face speech communication, the listener extracts and integrates information from the acoustic and optic speech signals. Integration occurs within the auditory modality (i.e., across the acoustic frequency spectrum) and across sensory modalities (i.e., across the acoustic and optic signals). The difficulties experienced by some hearing-impaired listeners in understanding speech could be attributed to losses in the extraction of speech information, the integration of speech cues, or… 
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