The influence of bilingualism on the preference for the mouth region of dynamic faces

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• dc.contributor.author Ayneto, Albaca
• dc.contributor.author Sebastián Gallés, Núriaca
• dc.date.accessioned 2016-05-18T06:49:31Z
• dc.date.available 2016-05-18T06:49:31Z
• dc.date.issued 2016ca
• dc.description.abstract Bilingual infants show an extended period of looking at the mouth of talking faces, which provides them with additional articulatory cues that can be used to boost the challenging situation of learning two languages (Pons, Bosch & Lewkowicz, 2015). However, the eye region also provides fundamental cues for emotion perception and recognition, as well as communication. Here, we explored whether the adaptations resulting from learning two languages are specific to linguistic content or if they also influence the focus of attention when looking at dynamic faces. We recorded the eye gaze of bilingual and monolingual infants (8- and 12-month-olds) while watching videos of infants and adults portraying different emotional states (neutral, crying, and laughing). When looking at infant faces, bilinguals looked longer at the mouth region as compared to monolinguals regardless of age. However, when presented with adult faces, 8-month-old bilingual infants looked longer at the mouth region and less at the eye region compared to 8-month-old monolingual infants, but no effect of language exposure was found at 12 months of age. These findings suggest that the bias to the mouth region in bilingual infants at 8 months of age can be generalized to other audiovisual dynamic faces that do not contain linguistic information. We discuss the potential implications of such bias in early social and communicative development.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by grants from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013): ERG grant agreement number 323961 (under control); the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PSI2015-66918-P) and the Catalan Government (SGR 2014–1210). NSG received the ‘ICREA Acadèmia’ prize for excellence in research, funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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• dc.identifier.citation Ayneto A, Sebastian-Galles N. The influence of bilingualism on the preference for the mouth region of dynamic faces. Dev Sci. 2016. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12446ca
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12446
• dc.identifier.issn 1363-755Xca
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26290
• dc.language.iso engca
• dc.publisher Wileyca
• dc.relation.ispartof Developmental Science. 2016
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/323961ca
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/PSI2015-66918-P
• dc.rights This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Ayneto A, Sebastian-Galles N. The influence of bilingualism on the preference for the mouth region of dynamic faces. Dev Sci. 2016., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12446. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.ca
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• dc.title The influence of bilingualism on the preference for the mouth region of dynamic facesca
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