Joan Birulés

Biographic Data

ID1003545
NAMEJoan Birulés
GIVEN NAMESJoan
FAMILY NAMEBirulés
SIGNATUREBIRULÉS J
AFFILIATIONSLaboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition
ORCID0000-0001-9708-4922
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Covering the eyes or mouth of a speaker does not prevent word learning in typically developing infants

    Joan Birulés, Olivier Pascalis et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2026

    Infant gaze-following skills and selective attention to the mouth of talking faces during their first year correlate with their vocabulary growth in their second year. This correlational evidence has led to the hypothesis that these attentional strategies are key mechanisms supporting word acquisition, a process which drastically improves during toddlerhood. If so, covering the eyes or mouth region of a talking face that teaches toddlers novel wo…

  • Infants' Preference for ID Speech in Face and Voice Extends to a Non‐Native Language

    Open AccessJoan Birulés, David Méary et al.ARTICLEInfancy2025

    Infants prefer infant‐directed (ID) speech. Concerning talking faces, previous research showed that 3‐ and 5‐month‐olds prefer faces that produce native ID than native adult‐directed (AD) speech, regardless of background speech being ID, AD or silent. Here, we explored whether infants also show a preference for non‐native ID speech. We presented 3‐ and 6‐month‐old infants with pairs of talking faces, one producing non‐native ID speech and the oth…

  • French Speakers Prefer Prosody Over Statistics to Segment Speech

    Open AccessJoan Birulés, Mireia Marimon et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2025References: 61

    To segment words in unfamiliar speech, listeners are known to exploit both native prosodic cues and statistical cues available in the speech signal. However, how and when these cues are combined remains a matter of debate. Here, we studied how transitional probabilities (TPs) and prosodic phrasal boundaries are combined by French speakers to segment words. Since French does not have lexical stress, prosodic phrasal boundaries unambiguously signal…

  • Early audiovisual language discrimination: Monolingual and bilingual infants’ differences in language switch detection

    Open AccessJoan Birulés, Francoise Pons et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Successful language learning in bilinguals requires the differentiation of two language systems. The capacity to discriminate rhythmically close languages has been reported in 4-month-olds using auditory-only stimuli. This research offers a novel perspective on early language discrimination using audiovisual material. Monolingual and bilingual infants were first habituated to a face talking in the participants’ native language (or the more freque…

  • Perceptual Narrowing in Face Processing: Reviewing the Factors Influencing its Onset and Offset

    Open AccessMargherita Fort, Mathilde Fort et al.ARTICLEJapanese Psychological Research2024

    An infant's face‐ and speech‐processing system develops during the first year from broad and non‐specific to becoming a system that is tuned to the faces and languages to which they are most exposed. This phenomenon is called perceptual narrowing. Before 9 months of age, infants are capable of discriminating and recognizing individuals from any type of race/species faces. However, with increased exposure to own‐race and own‐species faces and lack…

  • Time course of attention to a talker’s mouth in monolingual and close-language bilingual children

    Joan Birulés, Laura Bosch et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024Cited by: 1

    We presented 28 Spanish monolingual and 28 Catalan-Spanish close-language bilingual 5-year-old children with a video of a talker speaking in the children's native language and a nonnative language and examined the temporal dynamics of their selective attention to the talker's eyes and mouth. When the talker spoke in the children's native language, monolinguals attended equally to the eyes and mouth throughout the trial, whereas close-language bil…

  • Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants

    Open AccessJoan Birulés, Anna Martinez‐Alvarez et al.ARTICLEInfancy2022

    Infants start tracking auditory‐only non‐adjacent dependencies (NAD) between 15 and 18 months of age. Given that audiovisual speech, normally available in a talker's mouth, is perceptually more salient than auditory speech and that it facilitates speech processing and language acquisition, we investigated whether 15‐month‐old infants' NAD learning is modulated by attention to a talker's mouth. Infants performed an audiovisual NAD learning task wh…

  • Children With SLI Can Exhibit Reduced Attention to a Talker's Mouth

    Open AccessFrancoise Pons, Ferran Pons et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning2018Cited by: 2References: 42

    It has been demonstrated that children with specific language impairment (SLI) show difficulties not only with auditory but also with audiovisual speech perception. The goal of this study was to assess whether children with SLI might show reduced attention to the talker's mouth compared to their typically developing (TD) peers. An additional aim was to determine whether the pattern of attention to a talking face would be related to a specific sub…

  • Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: A descriptive study in primary healthcare

    Open AccessGrupo Estudio TABATIC, Elisa Puigdomènech et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    The use of ICTs to quit smoking is promising, with the technology of mobile phones having a broader potential. Younger and more educated subjects are good targets for ICTs interventions on smoking cessation