Looking-while-listening procedure¶
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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 associational),q2· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study
Description¶
The looking-while-listening procedure assesses efficiency of online spoken language comprehension in infants and toddlers. On each trial children see pictures of two familiar objects and hear speech naming one; gaze patterns are videotaped and coded frame-by-frame, yielding a high-resolution record of eye movements aligned with target noun onset, with inter-observer agreement averaging 97%. In this study it yielded mean reaction times for shifting from distracter to target picture at 18 and 24 months, used as the measure of speech processing efficiency.
Accounts¶
- Looking-while-listening eye-tracking procedure for measuring infants' real-time speech processing efficiency: The looking-while-listening procedure assesses efficiency of online spoken language comprehension in infants and toddlers. On each trial children see pictures of two familiar objects and hear speech naming one; gaze patterns are videotaped and coded frame-by-frame, yielding a high-resolution record of eye movements aligned with target noun onset, with inter-observer agreement averaging 97%. In this study it yielded mean reaction times for shifting from distracter to target picture at 18 and 24 months, used as the measure of speech processing efficiency. (Hurtado Nereyda et al. (2008))
Claims¶
- Children of mothers who produced more word tokens at 18 months were faster to recognize familiar words at 24 months [+M]
- Faster word recognition at 24 months is associated with larger vocabularies and greater vocabulary gains in Spanish-learning children [+M]
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Key Sources¶
- Hurtado Nereyda, Marchman Virginia A., Fernald Anne. (2008). Does input influence uptake? Links between maternal talk, processing speed and vocabulary size in Spanish-learning children. Developmental Science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898277/
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The looking-while-listening procedure assesses efficiency of online spoken language comprehension in infants and toddlers. |
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