Publications

Relevant to current projects

Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Language, Learning, and Categorization in Infants and Adults

Aslin, R. N., Shukla, M., and Emberson, L. L. (2015). Hemodynamic correlates of cognition in human infants. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 349–79.
Emberson, L. L., Richards, J. E., and Aslin, R. N. (2015). Top-down modulation in the infant brain: Learning-induced expectations rapidly affect the sensory cortex at 6 months. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 9585–9590.
Wu, R., Nako, R., Band, J., Shadravan, Y., Sherif, G., and Aslin, R. N. (2015). Rapid attentional selection of non-native visual stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 2299-2307.
Wu, R., Pruitt, Z., Runkle, M., Sherif, G., and Aslin, R. N. (2016). A neural signature of rapid category based target selection as a function of intra-item perceptual similarity, despite inter-item dissimilarity. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78, 749-760.
Karuza, E. A., Li, P., Weiss, D. J., Bulgarelli, F., Zinszer, B., and Aslin, R. N. (2016). Sampling over non-uniform distributions: A neural efficiency account of the primacy effect in statistical learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, 484-500.
Emberson, L. L., Boldin, A., Riccio, J. E., Guillet, R., & Aslin, R. N. (2017). Deficits in top-down, sensory prediction in infants at-risk due to premature birth. Current Biology, 27, 431-436.
Emberson, L. L., Zinszer, B. D., Raizada, R. D. S., and Aslin, R. N. (2017). Decoding the infant mind: Multichannel Pattern Analysis (MCPA) using fNIRS. PLoS ONE, April 20, 12(4): e0172500.
Karuza, E. A., Emberson, L. L., Roser, M. E., Cole, D., Fiser, J., & Aslin, R. N. (2017). Neural signatures of spatial statistical learning: Characterizing the extraction of structure from complex visual scenes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29, 1963-1976.
Zinszer, B. D., Bayet, L., Emberson, L. L., Raizada, R. D. S., & Aslin, R.N. (2017). Decoding semantic representations from fNIRS signals. Neurophotonics, 5(1), 011003.
Bergelson, E. and Aslin, R. N. (2017). Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 12916-12921.
Bayet, L., Zinzser, B. D., Pruitt, Z., Aslin, R. N. & Wu, R. (2018). Dynamics of neural representations when searching for exemplars and categories of human and non-human faces. Scientific Reports, 8:13277.
Piantadosi, S. T., Palmeri, H., and Aslin, R. N. (2018). Limits on composition of conceptual operations in 9-month-olds. Infancy, 23, 310-324.
Emberson, L. L., Boldin, A., Robertson, C., Cannon, G., & Aslin, R. N. (2019). Expectation affects neural repetition suppression in infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37, 100597.
Bayet, L., Zinszer, B., Reilly, E., Cataldo, J., Cataldo, J. K. Pruitt, Z., Cichy, R. M., Nelson, C. A., & Aslin, R. N. (2020). Temporal dynamics of visual representations in the infant brain. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, 100860.
Sanchez-Alonso, S. & Aslin, R. N. (2020). Predictive modeling of neurobehavioral state and trait variation across development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, 100855.
Sanchez-Alonso, S., Rosenberg, M. D, & Aslin, R. N. (2021). Comparing naturalistic viewing and rest reveals widespread neural differences in functional connectivity across development. Neuroimage, 229, 117630.
Wu, R., Kurum, E., Ahmed, C., Sain, D., & Aslin, R. N. (2021). Categorization in infancy based on novelty and co-occurrence. Infant Behavior and Development, 62, 101510.
Aslin, R. N. & Wang, A. (in press, 2021). A distributional perspective on the gavagai problem in early word learning. Cognition.
Arredondo, M. M., Aslin, R. N. & Werker, J. F. (2021). Bilingualism alters infants’ cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms. Developmental Science, e13172.

The Development of Multisensory Perception & Its Role in the Development of Speech & Language

Lewkowicz, D. J. & Ghazanfar, A. A. (2009). The emergence of multisensory systems through perceptual narrowing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(11), 470-478.
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2010). Infant perception of audio-visual speech synchrony. Developmental Psychology, 46(1) pp. 66-77.
Lewkowicz, D. J., Leo, I., & Simion, F. (2010). Intersensory perception at birth: Newborns match nonhuman primate faces and voices. Infancy, 15, 46-60.
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Hansen-Tift, A. (2012). Infants deploy selective attention to the mouth of a talking face when learning speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 109(5), 1431-1436.
Pons, F., Sanz-Torrent, M., Andreu, L., Buil, L., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2013). Perception of audio-visual speech synchrony in children with and without specific language impairment. Journal of Child Language, 40, 687-700.
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Pons, F. (2013). Recognition of amodal language identity emerges in infancy. Intl. J. of Behavioral Development, 37(2), 90-94.
Durand, K., Baudouin, J-Y, Lewkowicz, D. J., Goubet, N., & Schaal. B. (2013). Eye-catching odors: Olfaction elicits sustained gazing to faces and eyes in 4 month-old infants. PLoS ONE, 8, e70677.
Barenholtz, E., Lewkowicz, D. J., Davidson, M., & Mavica, L. (2014). Categorical congruence facilitates multisensory associative learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-7.
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Flom, R. (2014). The audio-visual temporal binding window narrows in early childhood. Child Development, 85(2), 685-694.
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2014). Early experience & multisensory perceptual narrowing. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(2), 292-315.
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Minar, N. J. (2014). Infants are not sensitive to synesthetic cross-modality correspondences: A comment on Walker et al. (2010). Psychological Science, 25 (3), 832-834.
Pons, F. & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2014). Infant perception of audio-visual speech synchrony in familiar and unfamiliar fluent speech. Acta Psychologica, 149, 142–147.
Lewkowicz, D. J., Minar, N. J., Tift, A. H., & Brandon, M. (2015). Perception of the multisensory coherence of fluent audiovisual speech in infancy: Its emergence and the role of experience. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 130, 147–162.
Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Dupierrix, E., Quinn, P. C., Lœvenbruck, H., Lewkowicz, D. J., Lee, K., & Pascalis, O. (2015). Perception of multisensory gender coherence in 6 and 9-month-old infants. Infancy. 20(6), 661–674.
Pons, F., Bosch, L., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2015). Bilingualism modulates infants’ selective attention to the mouth of a talking face. Psychological Science, 26(4), 490-498.
Barenholtz, E., Mavica, L., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2016). Language familiarity modulates relative attention to the eyes and mouth of a talker. Cognition, 147, 100-105.
Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Tift, A.H., Minar, N. J., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2016). Selective attention to a talker’s mouth in infancy: Role of audiovisual temporal synchrony and linguistic experience. Developmental Science. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12381.
Murray, M. M., Lewkowicz, D. J., Amedi, A., & Wallace, M. T. (2016). Multisensory Processes: A Balancing Act across the Lifespan. Trends in Neurosciences. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.05.003.
Richoz, A. R., Quinn, P. C., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Berger, C., Loevenbruck, H., Lewkowicz, D. J., Lee, K., Dole, M., Caldara, R., Pascalis, O. (2017). Audio-visual perception of gender by infants emerges earlier for adult-directed speech. PloS One, 12(1), e0169325. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169325.
Minar, N. & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2017). Overcoming the other-race effect in infancy with multisensory redundancy: 10–12-month-olds discriminate dynamic other-race faces producing speech. Developmental Science. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12604.
Lewkowicz, D. J., Schmuckler, M. A., & Mangalindan, D. M. J. (2018). Hierarchical serial pattern learning in infancy. Developmental Psychobiology. doi:10.1002/dev.21614.
Werchan, D. M., Baumgartner, H. A., Lewkowicz, D. J., & Amso, D. (2018). The origins of cortical multisensory dynamics: Evidence from human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.07.002.
Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Tift, A. H., Minar, N. J., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2018). The redeployment of attention to the mouth of a talking face in the second year of life. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.03.009.
Birules, J., Bosch, L., Brieke, R., Pons, F., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2018). Inside bilingualism: Language background modulates selective attention to a talker’s mouth. Developmental Science. e12755. doi:doi:10.1111/desc.12755.
Pons, F., Bosch, L., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2019). Twelve-month-old infants’ attention to the eyes of a talking face is associated with communication and social skills. Infant Behavior & Development, 54, 80-84.
Durand, K., Schaal, B., Goubet, N., Lewkowicz, D. J., & Baudouin, J-Y. (2020). Does any mother’s body odor stimulate interest in mother’s face in 4-month-old infants? Infancy, 25 (2), 151-164.
Birulés, J., Bosch, L., Pons, F., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2020). Highly proficient L2 speakers still need to attend to a talker’s mouth when processing L2 speech. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-12.
Lewkowicz, D. J., Schmuckler, & M., Agrawal, V. (2021). The multisensory cocktail party problem in adults: Perceptual segregation of talking faces on the basis of audiovisual temporal synchrony. Cognition, 214, 104743.
Lewkowicz, D. J. Masks can be detrimental to babies’ speech and language development: the good news is that parents can take action to compensate. Scientific American, Feb. 11, 2021
Santapuram, P., Feldman, J. I., Bowman, S. M., Raj, S., Suzman, E., Crowley, S., Kim, S. Y., Keceli-Kaysili, B., Bottema-Beutel, K., Lewkowicz, D. J., Wallace, M. T., Woynaroski, T. G. (2022). Mechanisms by which early eye gaze to the multisensory speech influences expressive communication development in infant siblings of children with and without autism. Mind, Brain, & Education.
Chawarska, K., Lewkowicz, D. J., Feiner, H. , Macari, S., & Vernetti, A. (2022). Attention to audiovisual speech facilitates language acquisition in infants at low risk for but not in infants at high risk for autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13595.
Birulés, J., Martinez-Alvarez, A., Lewkowicz, D. J., de Diego-Balaguer, R., & Pons, F. (2022). Violation of non-adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker’s mouth in 15-month-old infants.Infancy. 1-10.
Lewkowicz, D. J., Schmuckler, & M., Agrawal, V. (2022). The multisensory cocktail party problem in early childhood: Audiovisual temporal synchrony facilitates perceptual segregation of multiple talking faces in 3-7 year-old children. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105226.
Yates, T. S., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2023). Robust holistic face processing in early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 105676.