Belén López Assef
A5066543698- Reading and Literacy Development
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Color perception and design
- Multisensory perception and integration
University of Ottawa
2021-2025
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 Words said aloud are typically recalled more than words studied under other techniques. In certain circumstances, production does not lead to this memory advantage. We investigated the nature of effect by varying task during learning. Children aged five six years were trained on novel which required no action (Heard) compared Verbal-Speech (production), Non-Verbal-Speech (stick out tongue), and Non-Verbal-Non-Speech (touch nose). Eye-tracking showed successful learning in all...
Abstract Studies on the role of speech production learning have found a memory benefit from labeled “Production Effect.” While research with adults has generally shown robust advantage for produced words, children show more mixed results, and is affected by age, cognitive, linguistic factors. With adults, Production Effect not restricted to immediate context but also after delay. So far, no studies investigated effect delayed recall children. Children aged 5 6 years old ( n = 60)...
Research has found mixed evidence for the production effect in childhood. Some studies have a positive of on word recognition and recall, while others reverse. This paper takes developmental approach to investigate effect. Children aged 2–6 years ( n = 150) from predominantly white population Ottawa, Canada were trained familiar words which either seen, heard or produced, followed by recall task. Results showed shift: younger participants reverse effect, recalling more that during training,...
The visual world paradigm (VWP) can be used to understand the time-course of activation words and their competitors during spoken word recognition. A target is presented auditorily (e.g., ‘candy’) while its are visually. Competitors that may activated briefly despite not being word. They sound similar ‘candle’), have related meaning ‘pie’), or in some other way a perceptually such as ‘rope’ ‘snake’). allows researcher examine what words, from fixed set images on screen, participant...
The production effect is influenced by various factors, including cognitive and linguistic-related variables. Previous studies found that the varies when stimuli have native versus non-native speech sounds, but to date, no investigated whether also modulated frequency of sound patterns within a language. Adults were taught novel words in two training conditions: Produced or Heard. These items comprised English varied frequency. Participants trained on frequent recalled more than Heard items....
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...