Journal Articles
Development of Intersensory Perception
Lewkowicz, D. J.
(in press). Infant perception of audio-visual speech synchrony.
Developmental Psychology.
Neil, P. A., Chee-Ruiter, C., Scheier, C.,
Lewkowicz, D. J., & Shimojo, S. (2006). Development of multisensory
spatial integration and perception in humans. Developmental Science,
9, 454-464.
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Lewkowicz, D. J. (1996). Perception of auditory-visual temporal synchrony in human infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 22, 1094-1106. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Turkewitz, G. (1981). Intersensory interaction in newborns: Modification of visual preferences following exposure to sound. Child Development, 52, 827-832. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Turkewitz, G. (1980). Cross-modal equivalence in early infancy: auditory-visual intensity matching. Developmental Psychology, 16, 597-607. PDF
Experience & the Development of Intersensory Perception
Pons, F., Lewkowicz,
D. J., Soto-Faraco, S., &
Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2009). Narrowing of
intersensory speech perception in infancy
Lewkowicz, D.J., Leo,
I., & Simion, F. (in press).
Intersensory perception at birth: Newborns
match non-human
primate faces &
voices
Zangenehpour S., Ghazanfar A.A., Lewkowicz D.J and Zatorre R.J. (2009). Heterochrony and cross-species intersensory matching by infant vervet monkeys. PLoS ONE, Vol. 4 (1) pp. e4302. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J., Sowinski, R., & Place, S. (2008). The decline of cross-species intersensory perception in human infants: Underlying mechanisms & its developmental persistence. Brain Research. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Ghazanfar, A. A. (2006). The decline of cross-species intersensory perception in human infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 103, 6771-6774. PDF
Columbus, R. F., Sleigh, M. J., Lickliter, R., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (1998). Unimodal sensory experience interferes with responsiveness to the spatial contiguity of multimodal maternal cues in bobwhite quail chicks. Infant Behavior & Development, 21, 397-409. PDF
Lickliter, R., Lewkowicz, D. J., & Columbus, R. F. (1996). Intersensory experience and early perceptual development: The role of spatial contiguity in bobwhite quail chicks’ responsiveness to multimodal maternal cues. Developmental Psychobiology, 29, 403-416. PDF
Lickliter, R. & Lewkowicz, D. J. (1995). Intersensory experience and early perceptual development: Attenuated prenatal sensory stimulation affects postnatal auditory and visual responsiveness in bobwhite quail chicks. Developmental Psychology, 31, 609-618. PDF
Temporal Perception & Sequence Learning
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Berent, I. (in press).
Sequence Learning in 4 Month-Old
Infants: Do Infants Represent Ordinal Information?
Marcovitch, S. & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2009). Sequence learning in infancy: The Independent contributions of conditional probability and pair frequency information. Developmental Science. (for a copy please send an email to lewkowic@fau.edu)
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2008). Perception of dynamic & static audiovisual sequences in 3- and 4-month-old infants. Child Development, 79, 1538-1554. (for a copy please send an email to lewkowic@fau.edu)
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Marcovitch, S. (2006). Perception of audiovisual rhythm and its invariance in 4- to 10-month-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 48, 288-300. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2004). Serial order processing in human infants and the role of multisensory redundancy. Cognitive Processing. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2004). Perception of serial order in infants. Developmental Science. PDF (see MediaPlayer or Quicktime demo of stimuli used in the study).
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2003). Learning and discrimination of audiovisual events in human infants: The hierarchical relation between intersensory temporal synchrony and rhythmic pattern cues. Developmental Psychology, 39, 795-804. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. (1985). Developmental changes in infants' response to temporal frequency. Developmental Psychology, 21, 858-865. PDF
Review/Theoretical Papers
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Ghazanfar, A. A. (2009). The emergence of multisensory systems through perceptual narrowing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. (in press). Nature and nurture in perception. Sage Encyclopedia of Perception. PDF
Marcovitch, S. & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2004). U-Shaped functions: Artifact or hallmark of development? Journal of Cognition & Development, 5, 113-118. PDF.
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2002). Heterogeneity and
heterochrony in the development of intersensory perception. Cognitive
Brain Research, 14, 41-63. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2001). The concept of ecological validity: What are its limitations and is it bad to be invalid? Infancy, 2(4), 437-450. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Scheier, C. (2001). Situating situated multimodal perception: The relevance of global arrays to development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 225-226.
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2001). Word comprehension and
intersensory perception: Putting the cart before the horse? Developmental Science, 4, 19-21. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2000). Development of intersensory temporal perception: An epigenetic systems/limitations view. Psychological Bulletin, 126 (2), 281-308. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Lickliter, R.(1995). A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action: Book review. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 512-514. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J. (1993). Le rôle
des indices spécifiques de modalité dans la perception des équivalences
intermodales chez les bébés. Psychologie Française, 38(1),
33-40.
Illusions
Scheier, C., Lewkowicz, D. & Shimojo, S. (2003). Sound induces perceptual reorganization of an ambiguous motion display in human infants. Developmental Science, 6, 233-244. PDF
Scheier, C., Lewkowicz, D. & Shimojo, S. (2003). To bounce or not to bounce: A reply to Slater. Developmental Science, 6, 243-244. PDF. (To see Slater's commentary please click here).
Development of Lateralization
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Turkewitz, G. (1982). Influence of hemispheric specialization in sensory processing on reaching in infants: Age and gender related effects. Developmental Psychology, 18, 301-308. PDF
Lewkowicz, D. J., Gardner, J., & Turkewitz, G. (1979). Lateral differences and head turning responses to somesthetic stimulation in premature human infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 12, 607-614. PDF
Gardner, J., Lewkowicz, D. J., & Turkewitz, G. (1977). Development of postural asymmetry in premature infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 10, 471-480. PDF
Miscellaneous
Lewkowicz, D. J., Karmel, B. Z. & Gardner, J. M. (1998). Effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on responsiveness to multimodal information in infants between 4 and 10 months of age. Cocaine: Effects on the developing brain. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 846.
Freedland, R., Karmel, B. Z., Gardner, J.M., & Lewkowicz, D.J. (1998). Prenatal cocaine exposure and stimulus-seeking behaviors between 4- and 10-months: A continuation of poor arousal regulation as neonates. Cocaine: Effects on the developing brain. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 846.
Gorski, P.A., Huntington L., & Lewkowicz, D.J., (1990). Handling preterm infants in hospitals. Stimulating controversy about timing of stimulation. Clinical Perinatology, 17(1), 103-112.
Gorski, P. A., Lewkowicz, D. J., & Huntington, L. (1987). Advances in neonatal and infant behavioral assessment: toward a comprehensive evaluation of early patterns of development. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 8, 39-50.