Abstract
Two experiments used eye tracking to examine how infant and adult observers distribute their eye gaze on videos of a mother producing infant- and adult-directed speech. Both groups showed greater attention to the eyes than to the nose and mouth, as well as an asymmetrical focus on the talker's right eye for infant-directed speech stimuli. Observers continued to look more at the talker's apparent right eye when the video stimuli were mirror flipped, suggesting that the asymmetry reflects a perceptual processing bias rather than a stimulus artifact, which may be related to cerebral lateralization of emotion processing.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | Article 601 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | SEP |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Emotion
- Eye-tracking
- Face perception
- Infant-directed speech
- Language
- Lateralization
- Speech perception
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
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Smith, N. A., Gibilisco, C. R., Meisinger, R. E., & Hankey, M. (2013). Asymmetry in infants' selective attention to facial features during visual processing of infant-directed speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(SEP), [Article 601]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00601