A Bilingual Advantage in Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy

By Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Bàrbara Albareda-Castellot, Whitney M. Weikum, Janet F. Werker. 2012

245 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. David J. Lewkowicz
2. Ferran Pons
3. Laura Bosch
4. Janet F. Werker
5. Takao K. Hensch
6. Ellen Bialystok
7. Fergus I. M. Craik
8. Patricia K. Kuhl

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. David J. Lewkowicz
2. Ferran Pons
3. Laura Bosch
4. Ellen Bialystok
5. Takao K. Hensch
6. Janet F. Werker
7. Ross A. Flom
8. Asif A. Ghazanfar

Citations in the corpus

• Critical periods in speech perception: new directions. (2015, background): “Similarly, bilingual infants maintain the ability to discriminate two nonnative languages visually after the age that monolingual infants can no longer do so (Sebastián-Gallés et al. 2012).”
• Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “By 8 months of age, mononlingual-learning infants no longer do so, whereas bilingual-learning infants maintain the ability to discriminate the two languages visually (Sebastián-Gallés et al., 2012; Weikum et al., 2007).”
• Bilingualism Modulates Infants' Selective Attention to the Mouth of a Talking Face (2015, background): “…talking face driven by differences in infants’ linguistic background (i.e., single-language or dual-language exposure) and are consistent with findings showing that bilingual infants are sensitive to visual speech cues in a discriminative task (Sebastián-Gallés et  al., 2012; Weikum et  al., 2007).”
• The Bilingual Adaptation: How Minds Accommodate Experience (2017, background): “, & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2015). Bilingualism modulates infants’ selective attention to the mouth of a talking face.”