Figure 4.

Perception of the fricative continuum in the context of various auditory, visual and audio-visual cues to talker gender for listeners in Experiment 2. For each cue, responses are collapsed across all levels of the other cues (i.e., the data include all levels of vowel context and consonant lip rounding). The “Face” and “Voice” columns show data where the opposite cue is free to vary (i.e., a female face with either a female or a male voice). Stimuli where the voice and face cues were of the same gender are illustrated in the rightmost panels. Black lines depict cue levels expected to produce fewer /s/ responses. Sensitivity to context is demonstrated in each panel by the space between lines of different colors.