ArticleJournal of experimental child psychology2018
The redeployment of attention to the mouth of a talking face during the second year of life.
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- Social Brain Perspectives on the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience of Human Language.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Monolingual and bilingual infants' attention to talking faces: evidence from eye-tracking and Bayesian modeling.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Visual scanning patterns of a talking face when evaluating phonetic information in a native and non-native language.PloS one · 2024Article
- The Role of Talking Faces in Infant Language Learning: Mind the Gap between Screen-Based Settings and Real-Life Communicative Interactions.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Intersensory processing of faces and voices at 6 months predicts language outcomes at 18, 24, and 36 months of age.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2023Article
- Head turning is an effective cue for gaze following: Evidence from newly sighted individuals, school children and adults.Neuropsychologia · 2022Article
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- Visual Traces of Language Acquisition in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder During the Second Year of Life.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Cultural influences on face scanning are consistent across infancy and adulthood.Infant behavior & development · 2020Article
- The role of limited salience of speech in selective attention to faces in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2020Article
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Previous studies have found that when monolingual infants are exposed to a talking face speaking in a native language, 8- and 10-month-olds attend more to the talker's mouth, whereas 12-month-olds no longer do so. It has been hypothesized that the attentional focus on the talker's mouth at 8 and 10 months of age reflects reliance on the highly salient audiovisual (AV) speech cues for the acquisition of basic speech forms and that the subsequent decline of attention to the mouth by 12 months of age reflects the emergence of basic native speech expertise. Here, we investigated whether infants may redeploy their attention to the mouth once they fully enter the word-learning phase. To test this possibility, we recorded eye gaze in monolingual English-learning 14- and 18-month-olds while they saw and heard a talker producing an English or Spanish utterance in either an infant-directed (ID) or adult-directed (AD) manner. Results indicated that the 14-month-olds attended more to the talker's mouth than to the eyes when exposed to the ID utterance and that the 18-month-olds attended more to the talker's mouth when exposed to the ID and the AD utterance. These results show that infants redeploy their attention to a talker's mouth when they enter the word acquisition phase and suggest that infants rely on the greater perceptual salience of redundant AV speech cues to acquire their lexicon.
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