title: Integration of audio-visual information in 8-months-old infants
creator: Gustavsson, Lisa
creator: Sundberg, Ulla
creator: Klintfors, Eeva
creator: Marklund, Ellen
creator: Lagerkvist, Lisa
creator: Lacerda, Francisco
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Psycholinguistics
description: The results from a series of perception experiments designed to test 8-month-old infants’ ability to derive linguistic information from audio-visual events are reported in this presentation. Using a visual preference technique, 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, 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. (“Ecological theory of language acquisition”).
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
contributor: Berthouze, Luc
contributor: Kozima, Hideki
contributor: Prince, Christopher G.
contributor: Sandini, Giulio
contributor: Stojanov, Georgi
contributor: Metta, Giorgio
contributor: Balkenius, Christian
date: 2004
type: Conference Poster
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4065/1/gustavsson.pdf
identifier:   Gustavsson, Lisa and Sundberg, Ulla and Klintfors, Eeva and Marklund, Ellen and Lagerkvist, Lisa and Lacerda, Francisco  (2004) Integration of audio-visual information in 8-months-old infants.  [Conference Poster]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4065/