creators_name: Gustavsson, Lisa creators_name: Sundberg, Ulla creators_name: Klintfors, Eeva creators_name: Marklund, Ellen creators_name: Lagerkvist, Lisa creators_name: Lacerda, Francisco editors_name: Berthouze, Luc editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Prince, Christopher G. editors_name: Sandini, Giulio editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi editors_name: Metta, Giorgio editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confposter datestamp: 2005-04-14 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:50 metadata_visibility: show title: Integration of audio-visual information in 8-months-old infants ispublished: pub subjects: dev-psy subjects: psy-ling full_text_status: public keywords: naturalistic infant-directed speech, emergentistic acquisition model, audio-visual linguistic information abstract: 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”). date: 2004 date_type: published volume: 117 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 143-144 refereed: TRUE citation: 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] document_url: http://cogprints.org/4065/1/gustavsson.pdf