Bilingualism Modulates Infants’ Selective Attention to the Mouth of a Talking Face

Psychological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 490-498

  Pons, Ferran ^a   Bosch, Laura ^a   Lewkowicz, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

audiovisual speech; bilingualism; human infants; language development; multisensory perception; selective attention

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUTH; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUTH; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84927623495     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614568320     Document Type: Article

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