Thursday, 29th of September

The effect of eye contact on the retention of information

Cristina Galusca1, Alveno Vitale1, Luca L. Bonatti1,2

1. Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

2. ICREA

Learning information generalizable to kinds relies highly on the presence of ostensive-referential cues used by teachers to direct novices´ attention to the relevant aspects of their message. Also, the type of information infants attend to depends on the presence of ostensive-communicative signals.

The early origins of the consonant bias in word recognition: Spanish monolingual and Spanish-Catalan bilingual infants

Camillia Bouchon1, Camille Frey1, Nuria Sebastián-Gallés1,2, and Juan M. Toro1,2

1. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Center for Brain and Cognition, Spain

2. ICREA

Children with hearing impairment: conversational temporal skills and rhythmic training

Céline Hidalgo1, 2, Simone Falk3, Noël Nguyen1, and Daniele Schön2

1. Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille University, France

2. Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Aix-Marseille University, France

3. Institut de Philologie allemande, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Allemagne

Evaluating the influence of language on the vertical representation of auditory pitch and loudness

Irune Fernandez-Prieto1,2, Charles Spence2, Ferran Pons3 and Jordi Navarra1

1. Fundació Sant Joan de Déu and Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona

2. Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

3. Departament of Cognition Development and Educational Psychology. University of Barcelona

The effect of word position and prosody in a word learning task: a study on school-age children

Piera Filippi 1, 2 and Sabine Laaha 2

1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2. University of Vienna

Stimulus familiarity boosts rule abstraction: insights for comparative experiments on pattern perception

Andrea Ravignani, and Piera Filippi

Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The left, the better: white-matter brain integrity predicts foreign-language imitation

Lucía Vaquero1, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells1,2, and Susanne Reiterer3

1. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

2. IDIBELL & ICREA

3. University of Vienna

Effect of vocabulary skills on visual contextual priming in 24-month-olds: ERP evidence

Andrea Helo1,2, Najla Azaiez1, and Pia Rämä1

1. LPP, Université Paris Descartes, France

2. University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

The impact of music on learning and consolidation of novel words

Victoria J. Williamson1 and Jakke Tamminen2

1. Department of Music, University of Sheffield, UK

2. Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK