My mother always told me that I was smart. Now I can tell her that I am twice as smart! Why? I use my left and my right brain when I communicate. According to the Week 3 & 4 link, regarding language, deafness, and sign language, understanding spoken language is based on the left hemisphere of the brain whereas the processing of non-language perception (sign language) is based on the right hemisphere. Since I use both languages (sometimes simultaneously), I must be using both sides at once.
Now here's my question- where does the brain process lip reading? The right side of the brain is concerned with spatial processing which is why sign language is organized on this side. But if lip reading is not concerned with utilizing space is it still clustered under the right side as a visual component?
Texting in Boston
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Me and my trusty sidekick
My first taste of Universal Design
Me at 4 years
Little Dancer
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Another fashionable vest!
2 comments:
Kerry, I posted a question about lip reading on my blog that you might be able to answer:
The lips of the avatars in the CAST BookBuilder program move when they talk. But it looks to me like the lips move at random, meaning that the characters are animated but the movements don't correspond to the facial positions that correspond with the sounds they are making.
Does this create a distraction if you are a lip reader, and would it be better to have the option of "de-animating" the characters? Or is it a non-issue.
Thanks.
This is a question I used to ask myself growing up watching Disney movies. Did I know what Aladdin said to the Genie? Could I lipread him? No matter how fantastic the animation, I have yet to see a stimulation that truly represents a human being's lip movements. To me, watching animations' lip movements is the same as watching any person with Botox move their lips, the lips may move but the face muscles don't which is the real trick to lip reading.
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