Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy

By Whitney M. Weikum, A. Vouloumanos, J. Navarra, Salvador Soto-Faraco, Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Janet F. Werker. 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “One of the most interesting facts that has emerged from studies of narrowing in the speech domain has been that native-language experience also narrows infant response to silent visual speech (Weikum et al., 2007).”
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).”
Narrowing of intersensory speech perception in infancy (2009, background): “Despite the fact that it has now been clearly established that infant perception of non-native auditory (3, 24, 25) and visual (4) speech narrows and that infant intersensory response to the facial and vocal calls of another species (15) also narrows, no studies to date have investigated whether inf”
Intersensory Perception at Birth: Newborns Match Nonhuman Primate Faces and Voices. (2010, background): “, 2007), non-native audible speech contrasts (Best, McRoberts, & Sithole, 1988; Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Stevens, & Lindblom,1992; Werker & Tees, 1984), non-native visible speech contrasts (Weikum et al., 2007), and non-native musical rhythms (Hannon & Trehub, 2005), but that older infants no longer”
The Audio-Visual Temporal Binding Window Narrows In Early Childhood (2013, positive): “Consistent with this, a number of studies have found that adults and infants do, in fact, engage in a fair amount of lipreading (Lewkowicz & Hansen-Tift, 2012; Rosenblum, 2008; Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eigsti, Yano, & Munhall, 1998; Weikum et al., 2007).”
The Development of the Uncanny Valley in Infants (2011, background): “Finally, it has been found that narrowing of visual speech perception—watching the mouth utter silent speech—occurs in monolingual infants but not in bilingual infants, suggesting that continued exposure to both target languages maintains responsiveness to both of them (Weikum et al., 2007).”
The Origin of Biases in Face Perception (2009, background): “This hypothesis is consistent with the findings of Weikum et al. (2007), which suggest that visual information plays a role in the decline in ability to discriminate between native and nonnative phonemic contrasts.”
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): “This point is clearest in the study by Bialystok et al. (2005b) in which there were three groups of participants—monolinguals, French–English bilinguals, and Chinese–English bilinguals.”
Parental language mixing: Its measurement and the relation of mixed input to young bilingual children's vocabulary size* (2012, methodology): “Bilingual infants are adept at discriminating sentences from their native languages using both visual (Weikum et al., 2007) and auditory (Bosch & Sebastián-Gallés, 1997; Byers-Heinlein et al.”
A Bilingual Advantage in Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy (2012, methodology): “The procedure was the same as the one employed by Weikum et al. (2007). Infants’ discrimination performance was assessed with a visual habituation paradigm using Habit 2000 software (Cohen, Atkinson, & Chaput, 2004).”
Critical periods in speech perception: new directions. (2015, background): “However, infants growing up bilingual in English and French maintain sensitivity to the change in language at 8 months old (Weikum et al. 2007), consistent with the ubiquitous perceptual-narrowing pattern.”
The decline of cross-species intersensory perception in human infants: underlying mechanisms and its developmental persistence. (2008, background): “Second, might the older infants' failure to make intersensory matches have been due to unisensory processing deficits rather than to an intersensory integration deficit? This is likely in the visual modality because, as indicated earlier, responsiveness to nonnative faces declines during infancy (Ke”