2018
The redeployment of attention to the mouth of a talking face during the second year of life
de Boisferon A, Tift A, Minar N, Lewkowicz D. The redeployment of attention to the mouth of a talking face during the second year of life. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology 2018, 172: 189-200. PMID: 29627481, PMCID: PMC5920681, DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.03.009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTalker's mouthSpeech cuesAdult-directed mannerAudiovisual speech cuesWord learning phaseGreater perceptual salienceMonolingual infantsAttentional focusMonolingual EnglishPerceptual salienceEye gazeSpanish utterancesNative languageAcquisition phaseSpeech formsMonths of ageUtterancesCuesAttentionTalkersFaceSalienceGazeLexiconInfants
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