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TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of eye gaze on spoken word processing
T2 - an ERP study with infants
AU - Parise, Eugenio
AU - Handl, Andrea
AU - Palumbo, Letizia
AU - Friederici, Angela D.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79955623584&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01573.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01573.x
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:79955623584
VL - 82
SP - 842
EP - 853
JO - Child Development
JF - Child Development
SN - 0009-3920
IS - 3
ER -