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George Hollich

George Hollich. Assistant Professor Department of Psychological Sciences College of Liberal Arts Audiovisual Perception and Language Acquisition in Infants. Current Research Areas.

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George Hollich

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  1. George Hollich • Assistant Professor • Department of Psychological Sciences • College of Liberal Arts • Audiovisual Perception and Language Acquisition in Infants

  2. Current Research Areas • Empirical Studies of Infant Audiovisual Perception and Language Acquisition, including Word Learning and Grammatical Understanding. • Effects of Noise on Language Learning and Compensatory Strategies used by Infants. • Sensory-Oriented Computational Models of Audiovisual Perception and Language Acquisition

  3. Methodologies Empirical Studies Intermodal Preferential Looking Computational Modeling iSenseStream IKAROS

  4. Recent Results Infants use what they see to separate streams of speech in noisy environments. (Hollich, Newman, & Jusczyk, 2005, Child Development). A signal-level model of audiovisual synchrony combined with a model of visual attention can account for more than 90% of the variance in infants’ moment-by-moment looking behavior in an audiovisual preferential looking task. (Hollich & Prince, under review, Developmental Science).

  5. Future Directions Empirical tests of individual infants’ skills at audiovisual integration and the correlations with their hearing ability, home environment, and temperament. Signal-Level modeling of audiovisual integration, especially with regard to current theories of word learning.

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