Heard speech is simultaneously visualized as text, as if subtitles or a scrolling ticker are running in the visual field.
Inducer
speech
Concurrent
visual-text
Category
Auditory Visual
Heard speech is simultaneously visualized as text, as if subtitles or a scrolling ticker are running in the visual field. Estimated at around 6-7% of the population, it can aid spelling and verbal memory but may be distracting in noisy environments where multiple text streams appear simultaneously.
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