Bilingual toddlers show increased attention capture by static faces compared to monolinguals

Abstract Bilingual infants rely differently than monolinguals on facial information, such as lip patterns, to differentiate their native languages. This may explain, at least in part, why young and bilinguals show differences social attention. For example, the first year, attend faster more often static faces over non-faces do (Mercure et al., 2018). However, developmental trajectories of these are unknown. In this pre-registered study, data were collected from 15- 18-month-old (English) (English another language) test whether group face-looking behaviour persist into second year. We predicted that would orient rapidly monolinguals. Results supported but not hypothesis. suggests that, even year life, toddlers’ rapid visual orientation stimuli is sensitive early language experience.