Publication Date:
2007-05-26
Description:
This study shows that 4- and 6-month-old infants can discriminate languages (English from French) just from viewing silently presented articulations. By the age of 8 months, only bilingual (French-English) infants succeed at this task. These findings reveal a surprisingly early preparedness for visual language discrimination and highlight infants' selectivity for retaining only necessary perceptual sensitivities.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Weikum, Whitney M -- Vouloumanos, Athena -- Navarra, Jordi -- Soto-Faraco, Salvador -- Sebastian-Galles, Nuria -- Werker, Janet F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 May 25;316(5828):1159.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada. whitney@psych.ubc.ca〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17525331" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Humans
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Infant
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*Language Development
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Multilingualism
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Visual Perception/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
