A5080929903- Language Development and Disorders
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Human Pose and Action Recognition
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Color perception and design
- Human Motion and Animation
- Psychology of Social Influence
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
University College London
2024
Google (United States)
2023
University of Plymouth
2022-2023
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2020
Purdue University West Lafayette
2016-2019
Much of our basic understanding cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures looking time, specifically infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation many behavioral tasks infant research, determinants preferences are poorly understood, differences expression can be difficult to interpret. In this large-scale study, we test predictions from Hunter Ames model infants' preferences. We investigate effects three factors...
Abstract Both touch and speech independently have been shown to play an important role in infant development. However, little is known about how they may be combined the input child. We examined use of together by having mothers read their 5-month-olds books body parts animals. Results suggest that speech+touch multimodal events are characterized more exaggerated cues. Further, our results maternal touches aligned with tend infants locations congruent names parts. Thus, tactile cues could...
In the first year of life, ability to engage in sustained synchronous interactions develops as infants learn match social partner behaviors and sequentially regulate their response others. Difficulties developing competence these early building blocks can impact later language skills, joint attention, emotion regulation. For children at elevated risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), dyadic synchrony responsiveness difficulties may be indicative emerging ASD and/or developmental concerns....
Infants' experiences are defined by the presence of concurrent streams perceptual information in social environments. Touch from caregivers is an especially pervasive feature early development. Using three lab experiments and a corpus naturalistic caregiver-infant interactions, we examined relevance touch supporting infants' learning structure altogether different modality: audition. In each experiment, infants listened to sequences sine-wave tones following same abstract pattern (e.g., ABA...
Purpose Caregivers may show greater use of nonauditory signals in interactions with children who are deaf or hard hearing (DHH). This study explored the frequency maternal touch and temporal alignment speech input to DHH age-matched peers normal hearing. Method We gathered audio video recordings mother-child free-play interactions. Maternal units were annotated from recordings, events recordings. Analyses duration speech. Results Greater variance was observed its total DHH. Furthermore,...
Abstract Making adults learn from larger linguistic units can facilitate learning article–noun agreement. Here we ask whether initial exposure to improves by increasing the predictive associations between article and noun. Using an artificial language paradigm, taught 106 Hebrew‐speaking participants novel with either segmented input first or unsegmented first, tested their of association ability use articles predict nouns. Our results showed that exposed were more likely treat unit as one...
Purpose: Recent work suggests that speech perception is influenced by the somatosensory system and oral sensorimotor disruption has specific effects on of both in infants who have not yet begun to talk older children adults with ample production experience; however, we do know how such disruptions affect sound disorder (SSD). Response would-be articulators during could reveal linkages for typical atypical language development. Such are crucial advancing our knowledge typically developing...
This paper investigates the interaction between two people, namely, a caregiver and an infant. A particular type of action in human known as "touch" is described. We propose method to detect "touch event" that uses color motion features track hand positions caregiver. Our approach addresses problem occlusions during tracking. event recognition determine time when touches infant label it by analyzing merging contours caregiver's hands infant's contour. The proposed shows promising results...
Abstract Meaning in language emerges from multiple words, and children are sensitive to multi‐word frequency infancy. While successfully use cues single words generate linguistic predictions, it is less clear whether how they sequences guide real‐time processing form predictions on the basis of information or pairwise associations. We address these questions two visual‐world eye‐tracking experiments with 5‐ 8‐year‐old children. In Experiment 1, we asked more robust for sentence‐final object...
Abstract Caregivers' touches that occur alongside words and utterances could aid in the detection of word/utterance boundaries mapping word forms to meanings. We examined changes caregivers' use with their speech directed infants using a multimodal cross‐sectional corpus 35 Korean mother‐child dyads across three age groups (8, 14, 27 months). tested hypothesis frequency change infants' development. Results revealed word/utterance‐touch alignment as well + touch co‐occurrence is highest...
In this paper, we investigate the detection of interaction in videos between two people, namely, a caregiver and an infant. We are interested particular type human known as touch, touch is key social emotional signal used by caregivers when interacting with their children. propose automatic event recognition method to determine potential time interval touches addition label events, also classify them into six types based on which body part infant has been touched. CNN pose estimation person...
Much of our basic understanding cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures looking time, specifically infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation many behavioral tasks infant research, determinants preferences are poorly understood, differences expression can be difficult to interpret. In this large-scale study, we test predictions from Hunter Ames model infants' preferences. We investigate effects three factors...
Caregivers’ touches which occur alongside words and utterances can aid in the detection of word phrase boundaries mapping wordforms to meanings. This study examines whether caregivers attune their use occurring with speech infants’ age. Using a multi-modal corpus 35 Korean mother-child dyads across three age groups (8, 14, 27 months), we tested hypothesis that caregivers’ frequency would change development similar fashion way caregiver changes development. Results reveal word/utterance-touch...