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Bilingualism Modulates Infants' Selective Attention to the Mouth of a Talking Face by Pons, Ferran, Bosch, Laura, Lewkowicz, David J.

“…Infants growing up in bilingual environments succeed at learning two languages. What adaptive processes enable them to master the more complex nature of…”
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Early experience and multisensory perceptual narrowing by Lewkowicz, David J.

“…ABSTRACT Perceptual narrowing reflects the effects of early experience and contributes in key ways to perceptual and cognitive development. Previous studies…”
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Multisensory Processes: A Balancing Act across the Lifespan by Murray, Micah M, Lewkowicz, David J, Amedi, Amir, Wallace, Mark T

“…Multisensory processes are fundamental in scaffolding perception, cognition, learning, and behavior. How and when stimuli from different sensory modalities are…”
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Infants deploy selective attention to the mouth of a talking face when learning speech by Lewkowicz, David J, Hansen-Tift, Amy M

“…The mechanisms underlying the acquisition of speech-production ability in human infancy are not well understood. We tracked 4–12-mo-old English-learning…”
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Infant Perception of Audio-Visual Speech Synchrony by Lewkowicz, David J

“…Three experiments investigated perception of audio-visual (A-V) speech synchrony in 4- to 10-month-old infants. Experiments 1 and 2 used a…”
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The multisensory cocktail party problem in children: Synchrony-based segregation of multiple talking faces improves in early childhood by Lewkowicz, David J., Schmuckler, Mark, Agrawal, Vishakha

“…Extraction of meaningful information from multiple talkers relies on perceptual segregation. The temporal synchrony statistics inherent in everyday audiovisual…”
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The multisensory cocktail party problem in adults: Perceptual segregation of talking faces on the basis of audiovisual temporal synchrony by Lewkowicz, David J., Schmuckler, Mark, Agrawal, Vishakha

“…Social interactions often involve a cluttered multisensory scene consisting of multiple talking faces. We investigated whether audiovisual temporal synchrony…”
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Language familiarity modulates relative attention to the eyes and mouth of a talker by Barenholtz, Elan, Mavica, Lauren, Lewkowicz, David J.

“…•First study to investigate effects of language familiarity on attention during speech encoding.•Results show that an unfamiliar language increases attention…”
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The Audiovisual Temporal Binding Window Narrows in Early Childhood by Lewkowicz, David J., Flom, Ross

“…Binding is key in multisensory perception. This study investigated the audio-visual (A-V) temporal binding window in 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old children (total N =…”
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Time Course of Attention to a Talker's Mouth in Monolingual and Close-Language Bilingual Children by Birulés, Joan, Bosch, Laura, Lewkowicz, David J., Pons, Ferran

“…We presented 28 Spanish monolingual and 28 Catalan-Spanish close-language bilingual 5-year-old children with a video of a talker speaking in the children's…”
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How do babies come to know what babies know? by Moore, David S, Lewkowicz, David J

“…Elizabeth Spelke's is a scholarly presentation of core knowledge theory and a masterful compendium of empirical evidence that supports it. Unfortunately,…”
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Twelve-month-old infants’ attention to the eyes of a talking face is associated with communication and social skills by Pons, Ferran, Bosch, Laura, Lewkowicz, David J.

“…•We investigated whether 12-month-olds’ attention to a person’s eyes is related to their communication and social abilities.•Infants watched 45s video-clips of…”
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The emergence of multisensory systems through perceptual narrowing by Lewkowicz, David J, Ghazanfar, Asif A

“…According to conventional wisdom, multisensory development is a progressive process that results in the growth and proliferation of perceptual skills. We…”
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Robust holistic face processing in early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic by Yates, Tristan S., Lewkowicz, David J.

“…•We replicate the composite face effect in children 4- to 6-years of age tested online during the COVID-19 pandemic.•Face inversion disrupted the composite…”
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Inside bilingualism: Language background modulates selective attention to a talker's mouth by Birulés, Joan, Bosch, Laura, Brieke, Ricarda, Pons, Ferran, Lewkowicz, David J.

“…Previous findings indicate that bilingual Catalan/Spanish‐learning infants attend more to the highly salient audiovisual redundancy cues normally available in…”
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Highly proficient L2 speakers still need to attend to a talker's mouth when processing L2 speech by Birulés, Joan, Bosch, Laura, Pons, Ferran, Lewkowicz, David J.

“…Adults attend to a talker's mouth whenever confronted with challenging speech processing situations. We investigated whether L2 speakers also attend more to…”
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The redeployment of attention to the mouth of a talking face during the second year of life by Hillairet de Boisferon, Anne, Tift, Amy H., Minar, Nicholas J., Lewkowicz, David J.

“…•Infants increase attention to a talker's mouth during the first year of life.•This provides access to audiovisual speech cues & can aid speech &…”
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Overcoming the other‐race effect in infancy with multisensory redundancy: 10–12‐month‐olds discriminate dynamic other‐race faces producing speech by Minar, Nicholas J., Lewkowicz, David J.

“…We tested 4–6‐ and 10–12‐month‐old infants to investigate whether the often‐reported decline in infant sensitivity to other‐race faces may reflect…”
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Selective attention to a talker's mouth in infancy: role of audiovisual temporal synchrony and linguistic experience by Hillairet de Boisferon, Anne, Tift, Amy H., Minar, Nicholas J., Lewkowicz, David J.

“…Previous studies have found that infants shift their attention from the eyes to the mouth of a talker when they enter the canonical babbling phase after 6…”
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Narrowing of intersensory speech perception in infancy by Pons, Ferran, Lewkowicz, David J, Soto-Faraco, Salvador, Sebastián-Gallés, Núria

“…The conventional view is that perceptual/cognitive development is an incremental process of acquisition. Several striking findings have revealed, however, that…”
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