2016
Selective attention to a talker's mouth in infancy: role of audiovisual temporal synchrony and linguistic experience
de Boisferon A, Tift A, Minar N, Lewkowicz D. Selective attention to a talker's mouth in infancy: role of audiovisual temporal synchrony and linguistic experience. Developmental Science 2016, 20 PMID: 26743437, PMCID: PMC6340138, DOI: 10.1111/desc.12381.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAudio-visual synchronyTalker's mouthSelective attentionLinguistic experienceAudiovisual temporal synchronyAttentional focusBabbling phaseLanguage expertiseFluent speechEye gazeTemporal synchronySynchronized speechRelative attentionSpeechSynchronyMonths of ageAttentionTalkersLanguageExperienceGazeDesynchronizationInfantsUsual patternPrevious studies
2015
Language familiarity modulates relative attention to the eyes and mouth of a talker
Barenholtz E, Mavica L, Lewkowicz D. Language familiarity modulates relative attention to the eyes and mouth of a talker. Cognition 2015, 147: 100-105. PMID: 26649759, PMCID: PMC6367725, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAudiovisual speech cuesUnfamiliar languageLanguage familiarityFamiliar languageSpeech cuesBilingual subjectsLanguage conditionsMonolingual subjectsTalker's mouthAttentional strategiesSpeech processingLanguageRelative attentionTalkersTaskCuesFamiliarityAttentionAdultsSpeechFindingsParticipantsGreat attentionSubjectsProcessing