ERIC Number: EJ718191
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-May
Pages: 16
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 87
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Infants' Use of Synchronized Visual Information to Separate Streams of Speech
Hollich, George; Newman, Rochelle S.; Jusczyk, Peter W.
Child Development, v76 n3 p598-613 May 2005
In 4 studies, 7.5-month-olds used synchronized visua-lauditory correlations to separate a target speech stream when a distractor passage was presented at equal loudness. Infants succeeded in a segmentation task (using the head-turn preference procedure with video familiarization) when a video of the talker's face was synchronized with the target passage (Experiment 1, N=30). Infants did not succeed in this task when an unsynchronized (Experiment 2, N=30) or static (Experiment 3, N=30) face was presented during familiarization. Infants also succeeded when viewing a synchronized oscilloscope pattern (Experiment 4, N=26), suggesting that their ability to use visual information is related to domain-general sensitivities to any synchronized auditory-visual correspondence.
Descriptors: Infants, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Visual Discrimination, Child Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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