?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Integration+of+audio-visual+information+in+8-months-old+infants&rft.creator=Gustavsson%2C+Lisa&rft.creator=Sundberg%2C+Ulla&rft.creator=Klintfors%2C+Eeva&rft.creator=Marklund%2C+Ellen&rft.creator=Lagerkvist%2C+Lisa&rft.creator=Lacerda%2C+Francisco&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=The+results+from+a+series+of+perception+experiments+designed+to+test+8-month-old+infants%E2%80%99+ability+to+derive+linguistic+information+from+audio-visual+events+are+reported+in+this+presentation.%0AUsing+a+visual+preference+technique%2C+groups+of+8-month-old+infants+were+tested+on+their+ability+to+extract+linguistic+information+implicit+in+short+video+sequences+where+the+images+displayed+different+puppets+and+the+audio+tracks+presented+sentences+describing+the+puppets+in+naturalistic+infant-directed+speech+style.+To+assess+the+relative+importance+of+memory+and+attention+factors%2C+the+prosodic+and+syntactic+structure+of+the+speech+materials+was+systematically+changed+across+different+groups+of+subjects.+The+experimental+results+are+interpreted+in+terms+of+the+emergentistic+acquisition+model+discussed+in+the+paper+presented+by+Lacerda+et+al.+(%E2%80%9CEcological+theory+of+language+acquisition%E2%80%9D).&rft.publisher=Lund+University+Cognitive+Studies&rft.contributor=Berthouze%2C+Luc&rft.contributor=Kozima%2C+Hideki&rft.contributor=Prince%2C+Christopher+G.&rft.contributor=Sandini%2C+Giulio&rft.contributor=Stojanov%2C+Georgi&rft.contributor=Metta%2C+Giorgio&rft.contributor=Balkenius%2C+Christian&rft.date=2004&rft.type=Conference+Poster&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4065%2F1%2Fgustavsson.pdf&rft.identifier=++Gustavsson%2C+Lisa+and+Sundberg%2C+Ulla+and+Klintfors%2C+Eeva+and+Marklund%2C+Ellen+and+Lagerkvist%2C+Lisa+and+Lacerda%2C+Francisco++(2004)+Integration+of+audio-visual+information+in+8-months-old+infants.++%5BConference+Poster%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4065%2F