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ERIC Number: EJ928909
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
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Influence of Eye Gaze on Spoken Word Processing: An ERP Study with Infants
Parise, Eugenio; Handl, Andrea; Palumbo, Letizia; Friederici, Angela D.
Child Development, v82 n3 p842-853 May-Jun 2011
Eye gaze is an important communicative signal, both as mutual eye contact and as referential gaze to objects. To examine whether attention to speech versus nonspeech stimuli in 4- to 5-month-olds (n = 15) varies as a function of eye gaze, event-related brain potentials were used. Faces with mutual or averted gaze were presented in combination with forward- or backward-spoken words. Infants rapidly processed gaze and spoken words in combination. A late Slow Wave suggests an interaction of the 2 factors, separating backward-spoken word + direct gaze from all other conditions. An additional experiment (n = 15) extended the results to referential gaze. The current findings suggest that interactions between visual and auditory cues are present early in infancy.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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