2024
Time Course of Attention to a Talker’s Mouth in Monolingual and Close-Language Bilingual Children
Birulés J, Bosch L, Lewkowicz D, Pons F. Time Course of Attention to a Talker’s Mouth in Monolingual and Close-Language Bilingual Children. Developmental Psychology 2024, 60: 135-143. PMID: 37917490, DOI: 10.1037/dev0001659.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchChild's native languageNative languageNonnative languageSelective attentionEarly linguistic experienceLinguistic experienceBilingual childrenSpanish monolingualsTalker's eyesMonolingualsLanguageTalker's faceTalker's mouthChildren's deploymentBilingualsTalkersEqual attentionTemporal dynamicsDifferential effectsCatalanAttentionUtterancesChildrenFaceTime course
2022
The multisensory cocktail party problem in children: Synchrony-based segregation of multiple talking faces improves in early childhood
Lewkowicz D, Schmuckler M, Agrawal V. The multisensory cocktail party problem in children: Synchrony-based segregation of multiple talking faces improves in early childhood. Cognition 2022, 228: 105226. PMID: 35882100, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105226.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPerceptual segregationTalking faceSame utteranceCocktail party problemEarly childhoodAV speechAudiovisual speechTalker's mouthSelective attentionMultiple talkersDevelopmental emergenceEye trackingParty problemTalkersDifferent facesSpeechUtterancesChildrenFaceChildhoodAttentionPowerful basisMeaningful informationSynchronyVersion
2021
The multisensory cocktail party problem in adults: Perceptual segregation of talking faces on the basis of audiovisual temporal synchrony
Lewkowicz D, Schmuckler M, Agrawal V. The multisensory cocktail party problem in adults: Perceptual segregation of talking faces on the basis of audiovisual temporal synchrony. Cognition 2021, 214: 104743. PMID: 33940250, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104743.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAudiovisual temporal synchronyTalking facePerceptual segregationTemporal synchronySpeech utterancesCocktail party problemMultisensory coherenceTalker's eyesAudible utterancesSame speech utteranceEye trackingParty problemSocial interactionUtterancesFaceSynchronyParticipantsAdultsScanning strategyVersionSceneFindingsPreferencesCoherence
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