Infants deploy selective attention to the mouth of a talking face when learning speech

By David J. Lewkowicz, Amy M Hansen-Tift. 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Developmental Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Multisensory Processes: A Balancing Act across the Lifespan (2016, background): “By 6–9 months of age infants begin to detect gender [38] and affect [39] as bound multisensory perceptual constructs, by 8 months they start to selectively attend to the source of fluent audiovisual speech located in a talker's mouth [2], and by 12 months they begin to perceive the multisensory cohe”
Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “To determine when the predicted developmental changes in selective attention may occur, Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift (2012) tested separate cohorts of 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-, and 12-month-old monolingual English-learning infants and a group of monolingual English-speaking adults in each experiment,…”
Recognition of Amodal Language Identity Emerges in Infancy (2013, background): “…known to facilitate perception, learning, and memory (Lewkowicz & Kraebel, 2004) in infancy, and because it has been found that infants take advantage of audiovisual speech redundancy when they begin learning how to talk in the second half of the first year of life (Lewkowicz & Hansen-Tift, 2012).”
Bilingualism Modulates Infants' Selective Attention to the Mouth of a Talking Face (2015, methodology): “Experiment 1 Previous studies have found developmental changes in monolingual infants’ relative deployment of selective attention to the eyes and mouth of a talker (Lewkowicz & Hansen-Tift, 2012).”
The Audio-Visual Temporal Binding Window Narrows In Early Childhood (2013, unknown): “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).”
Beyond eye gaze: What else can eyetracking reveal about cognition and cognitive development? (2016, background): “The authors’ interpretation is that infants direct heir attention to the mouth as they learn to produce sounds, hereas older children and adults tend to focus on the eyes to lean social cues (Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift, 2012).”