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Audiovisual Speech Perception in Infancy: The Influence of Vowel Identity and Infants' Productive Abilities on Sensitivity to (Mis)Matches between Auditory and Visual Speech Cues
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Altvater-Mackensen, Nicole; Mani, Nivedita; Grossmann, Tobias – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Recent studies suggest that infants' audiovisual speech perception is influenced by articulatory experience (Mugitani et al., 2008; Yeung & Werker, 2013). The current study extends these findings by testing if infants' emerging ability to produce native sounds in babbling impacts their audiovisual speech perception. We tested 44 6-month-olds…
Descriptors: Speech, Infants, Auditory Perception, Visual Perception
Facilitating Children's Ability to Distinguish Symbols for Emotions: The Effects of Background Color Cues and Spatial Arrangement of Symbols on Accuracy and Speed of Search
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Wilkinson, Krista M.; Snell, Julie – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2011
Purpose: Communication about feelings is a core element of human interaction. Aided augmentative and alternative communication systems must therefore include symbols representing these concepts. The symbols must be readily distinguishable in order for users to communicate effectively. However, emotions are represented within most systems by…
Descriptors: Cues, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Interaction, Psychological Patterns
Visual Word Recognition in Bilinguals: Evidence for a Cooperation between Visual and Sound Based Codes during Access to a Common Lexical Store.
Nas, Gerard – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1983
Two experiments are reported in which mismatched sounds and spelling were studied in Dutch pseudo-words used as stimuli in English lexical decision experiments. Results show mismatches in spelling or sound result in longer latencies for Dutch pseudo-words than for their nonword controls, supporting a cooperation model of lexical access. (MSE)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Bilingualism, Cues, Dutch