AuditoryPhonetic2022ProsodyPhonological developmentAdultsInfancyJoint Committee on Infant HearingPatternsBilingual infantsRecognitionCognitionNeurodevelopmental disordersPerceptualPsycholinguisticsPhoneticsVowel perceptionCategorical perceptionPerceive2020AffectsLanguageIntonationConsonantSensoryAdultLinguisticDiscriminationStimuliAudio-visual speech perceptionNewbornPhonologyCochlear implantCognitive DevelopmentIntelligibilityMaternal moodExposureToddlersHarvard UniversityEarlyVisual perceptionResearchMaximizeDevelopmentMotion perceptionStudiesInterventionDevelopsYoungResponses to speechHearingCategorizationProductionListenersExperimentsDetectionMonths
Auditory8
- Musical experience and the aging auditory system: Implications for cognitive abilities and hearing speech in noise. (crossref.org)
- This chapter addresses the problems of auditory lexical access from continuous speech. (mpi.nl)
- Auditory preprocessing and recognition of speech. (mpi.nl)
- Nineteen blind and 40 sighted children and adolescents (4-17 years old) listened to stories and two auditory control conditions (unfamiliar foreign speech, and music). (jneurosci.org)
- Theoretically, CP argues that perception-the pre-categorical auditory encoding-is warped by the presence of categories. (frontiersin.org)
- A new study finds a surprising link between an infant's oral motor movements and auditory speech perception. (neurosciencenews.com)
- More recent work has shown that infants direct their attention to auditory and visual cues that have an intermediate level of complexity. (yale.edu)
- The term auditory neuropathy/auditory dyssynchrony (AN/AD) describes a diagnosis that affects a small group of patients with hearing loss and speech intelligibility scores out of proportion with their presumed hearing loss. (medscape.com)
Phonetic6
- Phonetic perception and the temporal cortex. (crossref.org)
- In this talk, I introduce a number of psychological behavioral experiments taken from some important studies on infant phonetic and lexical acquisition. (xjtlu.edu.cn)
- The study indicated that phonetic exaggeration of lexical tones may facilitate infants' recognition of similar sounding words in the middle of the second year of life. (xjtlu.edu.cn)
- Statistical distributions of phonetic variants in spoken language influence speech perception for both language learners and mature users. (butler.edu)
- We theorized that patterns of phonetic variant processing of consonants demonstrated by adults might stem in part from patterns of early exposure to statistics of phonetic variants in infant-directed (ID) speech. (butler.edu)
- These results suggest that birth is not a benchmark that reflects a complete separation between the effects of nature versus those of nurture on infants' perception of the phonetic units of speech. (tomedes.com)
20222
- 2022 ) The development of gendered speech in children: Insights from adult L1 and L2 perceptions. (academictree.org)
- Classic developmental work argued that speech categories are formed during the first year of life and that the emergence of these categories and their structure was associated with a sensitive period ( Werker and Tees, 1984 ) (though see McMurray, 2022 ). (frontiersin.org)
Prosody1
- Figure from Prosody cues word order in 7-month-old bilingual infants (Gervain & Werker, 2013). (blogspot.com)
Phonological development2
- The logical dynamic language specific allophonic variation imposes on phonological development is integrated into an account of the transition from language-general to language-specific speech perception observed within the first year of infancy. (aaai.org)
- An experiment, reminiscent of Brown's "Original Word Game", but specifically designed to test the "cognitive" hypothesis that 8- to 10-month old subjects can exploit nascent speech-referent pairs to bootstrap phonological development is proposed. (aaai.org)
Adults8
- Contrast sensitivity, the ability to detect luminance differences between two adjacent areas (such as stripes on a grating), is also reduced in newborns relative to adults but develops as infants gain visual experience. (britannica.com)
- Human adults and human infants show a perceptual magnet effect for the prototypes of speech categories, monkeys do not. (crossref.org)
- Although research has suggested that audio-visual speech perception is linked to articulatory movements in adults, no studies have examined this link in infants. (psychologicalscience.org)
- I am currently accepting applications for PhD, MPhil, and MRes students for projects on 1) Neurobiology of the effects of experiential factors, such as bilingualism, on executive functions in older adults, and 2) Bilingual vocabulary development and speech perception. (bangor.ac.uk)
- For adults and children who can respond reliably, standard pure-tone and speech audiometry tests are used to screen likely candidates. (medscape.com)
- Adults] subconsciously listen to vowel and consonant sounds in our speech to ensure we are producing them correctly," says study lead author Ewen MacDonald from the Technical University of Denmark . (abc.net.au)
- So, if toddlers do not automatically monitor their own speech productions for accuracy as adults and young children do, how do they learn to produce the sounds used in their language community? (abc.net.au)
- This possibility was tested using a corpus of spontaneous speech of mothers speaking to other adults, or to their typically-developing infant. (butler.edu)
Infancy4
- The process of coordination, known as intermodal perception, begins early and improves across infancy . (britannica.com)
- Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. (uni-trier.de)
- These duplications are associated with recurrent seizures (epilepsy) starting in infancy, intellectual disability, and severe speech impairment. (medlineplus.gov)
- Duplications of the FOXG1 gene have also been identified in several infants diagnosed with West syndrome, a condition characterized by epilepsy that begins in infancy, severe to profound intellectual disability, and related brain abnormalities. (medlineplus.gov)
Joint Committee on Infant Hearing2
- Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) is made up of representatives from national organizations dedicated to ensuring early identification, intervention and follow-up care of infants and young children with hearing loss. (cdc.gov)
- The Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) endorses early detection of and intervention for infants with hearing loss. (cdc.gov)
Patterns7
- Infants' looking patterns were biased away from audiovisually matching faces when they made lip movements similar to those needed to produce the heard vowel. (psychologicalscience.org)
- Association of maternal mood postpartum with electroencephalography patterns of infant speech development at 2 and 6 months. (mpg.de)
- Recent experimental research in developmental phonology confirms that within their first year, infants demonstrate language-specific patterns of speech perception discrimination. (aaai.org)
- This study offers interesting insights into the child's ability to perceive [speech] because the four-year-olds were showing quite clear patterns but the two-year-olds were not," says McLeod, who was not involved in the research. (abc.net.au)
- But McLeod says the difference in speech patterns may not only be linked to the two-year-olds' ability to perceive their own production. (abc.net.au)
- Are there intuitive parenting speech and language patterns that are scientifically proven to be effective in language development? (radiomd.com)
- She is interested in particular in speech perception and production patterns of individuals who speak more than one language, whether as bilinguals or second language learners. (purdue.edu)
Bilingual infants1
- 2021 ) Revisiting the talker recognition advantage in bilingual infants. (academictree.org)
Recognition3
- 2019 ) Resolving the (Apparent) Talker Recognition Paradox in Developmental Speech Perception. (academictree.org)
- Although a number of speech-recognition tests are currently used for different reasons, one of the most common such tests is the hearing in noise test (HINT), which assesses speech recognition in the context of sentences. (medscape.com)
- The HINT measures word-recognition abilities to evaluate the patient's candidacy for cochlear implantation, in conjunction with conventional pure-tone and speech audiometry. (medscape.com)
Cognition1
- It is arguably the most interdisciplinary of the traditional areas of psychology, as individuals may focus on development in relation to sensation and perception, cognition, reasoning and behaving in the social environment, personality, and brain systems. (pressbooks.pub)
Neurodevelopmental disorders1
- Sleep is atypical across neurodevelopmental disorders in infants and toddlers: A cross-syndrome study. (city.ac.uk)
Perceptual2
- However, infants lack perceptual knowledge, which must be gained through experience with the world around them. (britannica.com)
- This raises the possibility that perceptual processing of canonical /t/ may be partly attributable to exposure to canonical /t/ variants in ID speech. (butler.edu)
Psycholinguistics1
- Her research interests broadly lie in infant/child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, phonetics, speech production and perception. (xjtlu.edu.cn)
Phonetics2
- Olga does research in acoustic phonetics and speech perception. (purdue.edu)
- He researches speech perception, acoustic phonetics and cognitive hearing science, with a particular interest in the role of cognitive mechanisms in understanding speech under challenging conditions. (purdue.edu)
Vowel perception2
- Maturation of consonant perception, but not vowel perception predicts lexical skills at 12 months. (mpg.de)
- The study researchers concluded, "'The results of our study support the hypothesis that language experienced in utero affects vowel perception. (tomedes.com)
Categorical perception3
- A role for the right superior temporal sulcus in categorical perception of musical chords. (crossref.org)
- For much of its history, categorical perception was treated as a foundational theory of speech perception, which suggested that quasi-discrete categorization was a goal of speech perception. (frontiersin.org)
- We present the Visual Analogue Scaling task which avoids the discrete and binary assumptions of categorical perception and can capture gradiency more precisely than other measures. (frontiersin.org)
Perceive4
- At about four months, infants are able to perceive depth via the difference in the optical projections at the two retinas to determine depth, known as stereopsis. (britannica.com)
- One consequence of this is that during speech perception, listeners discard continuous acoustic information that is irrelevant to category identity and only perceive the category. (frontiersin.org)
- While there have been many studies in the past that have looked at an infant's ability to hear, this study offers a new insight into how young children perceive their speech, says speech pathologist Professor Sharynne McLeod, an ARC Future Fellow from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. (abc.net.au)
- Take a look at a typical introductory textbook on the topic, and you will likely see research questions as wide-ranging as: When do infants perceive physical depth? (pressbooks.pub)
20202
- 2020). A number of studies have examined responses to speech in infant brains (e.g. (biorxiv.org)
- 2020 ) Targeted adaptation in infants following live exposure to an accented talker. (academictree.org)
Affects2
- What affects a person's perceptions of a potential opponent? (psychologicalscience.org)
- Alignment of f0 peak in different pitch accent types affects perception of metrical prominence. (uni-trier.de)
Language23
- Early language acquisition: Cracking the speech code. (crossref.org)
- Deficits in speech perception predict language learning impairment. (crossref.org)
- Music, language, speech and brain (pp. 157-166). (mpi.nl)
- The same cortical tissue can take on visual perception and language functions. (jneurosci.org)
- My research is in infant speech perception and early language experiences. (theconversation.com)
- Computer Speech & Language, 101537. (uni-trier.de)
- Language and Speech 62(4), 779-807. (uni-trier.de)
- Precursors to language development in typically and atypically developing infants and toddlers: the importance of embracing complexity. (city.ac.uk)
- Attentional abilities constrain language development: A cross‐syndrome infant/toddler study. (city.ac.uk)
- For while it is clear that this transition is related to the particular linguistic environment of the infant, it remains obscure whether mere acoustic exposure to -- as opposed to interpretive experience with the target language is sufficient to support the details of this development. (aaai.org)
- If we assume CP as a model of speech perception, this can then explain adult learners: many new L2 distinctions comprise within-category distinctions in the native language (e.g., the English l/r distinction which lies within the Japanese category). (frontiersin.org)
- It remains a mystery how infants can learn language with little effort and remarkable speed. (xjtlu.edu.cn)
- To address this issue, psychological research methods have been used widely in the field of infant language acquisition. (xjtlu.edu.cn)
- For these young learners(especially the preverbal infants)who are not able to give clear verbal responses about what they think or understand, these psychological methods enable us to investigate the processes and outcomes of their language learning through observing their behavior. (xjtlu.edu.cn)
- Proessor Rochelle Newman is Chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (HESP) at the University of Maryland (UMD), and also serves as Associate Director of the Maryland Language Science Center. (radiomd.com)
- Her research focuses on speech perception and language acquisition. (radiomd.com)
- In fact, researchers found that parents who repeat words more often to their infants improve their language skills within a year and half later. (radiomd.com)
- Chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (HESP), Rochelle Newman, shares how repeating words to your infant can improve language development. (radiomd.com)
- Thus, gender-fair language increases the prominence of women in the mind, but has varying effects on consistency, i.e., the match with default perceptions of real-world gender ratios. (lscp.net)
- This is a striking example of how differences in language may affect our perception of the world around us. (todayifoundout.com)
- Results support the need for further research into how statistics of variant pronunciations in early language input may shape speech processing across the lifespan. (butler.edu)
- The telencephalon ultimately develops into several critical structures, including the the largest part of the brain (the cerebrum), which controls most voluntary activity, language, sensory perception, learning, and memory. (medlineplus.gov)
- Patients with this disorder are able to respond to sounds appropriately, but their ability to decode speech and language is hindered. (medscape.com)
Intonation1
- The limits of metrical segmentation: intonation modulates infants' extraction of embedded trochees. (uni-trier.de)
Consonant1
- Statistical distributions of consonant variants in infant-directed spe" by Laura Dilley, Jessica Gamache et al. (butler.edu)
Sensory3
- As infants' senses mature, they begin to coordinate information obtained through multiple sensory modalities . (britannica.com)
- There is a consensus among developmental neurobiologists that the establishment of thalamocortical connections (at weeks 22-34, reliably at 29) is a critical event with regard to fetal perception of pain, as they allow peripheral sensory information to arrive at the cortex. (wikipedia.org)
- Our sensory impressions are, together with motivation, interest and the brain's development, the basis for our perception, our interpretation of the world around us. (lu.se)
Adult2
- As a human progresses through life, they transition from a zygote to a crying infant, from a babbling toddler to a curious kindergartner, from a quick-learning grade school student to a broody adolescent, from an independence-seeking emerging adult to a mature adult, and later, to an elderly senior. (pressbooks.pub)
- In particular, we hypothesized that ID speech might involve greater proportions of canonical /t/ pronunciations compared to adult-directed (AD) speech in at least some phonological contexts. (butler.edu)
Linguistic3
- Linguistic rhythm and speech segmentation. (mpi.nl)
- The goal of early detection of new hearing loss is to maximize perception of speech and the resulting attainment of linguistic‐based skills. (cdc.gov)
- Much of the research on speech perception has focused on understanding this problem of lack of invariance - how does a given listener categorize a highly variable acoustic signal into discrete units like features, phonemes or words to extract the linguistic information relevant for that utterance? (frontiersin.org)
Discrimination2
- Increased cortical surface area of the left planum temporale facilitates the discrimination of temporal speech information in musicians. (crossref.org)
- Longitudinal trajectories of electrophysiological mismatch responses in infant speech discrimination differ across speech features. (mpg.de)
Stimuli1
- infant perception , process by which a human infant (age 0 to 12 months) gains awareness of and responds to external stimuli. (britannica.com)
Audio-visual speech perception1
- Audio-visual speech perception in infants and toddlers with Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and Williams syndrome. (city.ac.uk)
Newborn1
- She says the study also highlights the importance of early intervention by speech pathologists and newborn hearing assessments. (abc.net.au)
Phonology1
- Marginal contrast in loanword phonology: Production and perception. (lscp.net)
Cochlear implant1
- Repeated testing of his hearing and speech perception with the cochlear implant showed no deterioration. (cdc.gov)
Cognitive Development2
- The effects of bilingual environments on infant cognitive development. (city.ac.uk)
- Parent-child interaction as a dynamic contributor to learning and cognitive development in typical and atypical development / Influencia dinámica entre la interacción padre/madre-hijo y el aprendizaje y el desarrollo cognitivo en el desarrollo típico y atípico . (city.ac.uk)
Intelligibility2
- The cocktail party phenomenon: A review of research on speech intelligibility in multiple-talker conditions. (crossref.org)
- The intelligibility of interrupted speech. (crossref.org)
Maternal mood1
- Association of postpartum maternal mood with infant speech perception at 2 and 6.5 months of age. (mpg.de)
Exposure1
Toddlers2
- There may be a whole range of reasons why the toddlers are having difficulty, for example, their motor planning skills and their ability to produce speech is still developing at that stage," she says. (abc.net.au)
- Speech Pathology Australia has a fact sheet that outlines speech milestones for toddlers and young children . (abc.net.au)
Harvard University1
- New research from the University of Maryland and Harvard University suggests that young infants benefit from hearing words repeated by their parents. (radiomd.com)
Early3
- GBS plays a major role in early- and late-onset infections in neonates and young infants ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
- Early intervention services for infants with con- culture-positive sepsis), a repeat hearing screening firmed hearing loss should be provided by profes- is recommended before discharge. (cdc.gov)
- Particularly a sense of touch in the mouth develops early in infants and they often place things in the mouth to explore them before knowing what it is they are holding in their hands. (lu.se)
Visual perception1
- This RCT study provides the first evidence of a causal effect of music training on improved audio-visual perception that goes beyond the music domain. (nature.com)
Research4
- Professor Newman helped found the UMD Infant & Child Studies Consortium and the University of Maryland Autism Research Consortium. (radiomd.com)
- Aditya's primary research interests include the embodiment of musical structure, and the perception of familiar melodic schemata in galant music. (yale.edu)
- My Ph.D research is an ethnographic study on infant healthcare belief practices and social value of the child in rural Punjab. (lu.se)
- With a psychological anthropological perspective this research produced five articles related to native anthropology, social value of the child, and a magico-religious interpretation of infant health care belief practices. (lu.se)
Maximize1
Development5
- Infant Behavior and Development , 44 , pp. 249-262. (city.ac.uk)
- Children are still developing between two and four so if we can identify markers when they're young, we can facilitate their development because that perception, storage, output linkage is so crucial in children's, and all of our ability, to speak. (abc.net.au)
- More specifically, she is interested in how the brain recognizes words from fluent speech, especially in the context of noise, and how this ability changes with development. (radiomd.com)
- Speech rhythm in development: What is the child acquiring? (benjamins.com)
- Sourse: The Swedish Healthcare Guide - about infant development 0-6 months. (lu.se)
Motion perception2
- Moreover, infants' own motion also contributes to motion perception. (britannica.com)
- Despite the complex nature of motion, nearly all types of motion perception develop by about six months in healthy infants. (britannica.com)
Studies4
- Temporal variables in speech: studies in honour of Frieda Goldman-Eisler (pp. 183-190). (mpi.nl)
- The head-turn preference paradigm is widely used in studies of speech perception in infants. (blogspot.com)
- In addition, I present one of my own infant studies which employed such kind of behavioral experiments. (xjtlu.edu.cn)
- Studies have already indicated that long before babies can speak themselves, they are picking up the perception of speech. (tomedes.com)
Intervention1
- The focus of this new version is on data and the EHDI information systems (EHDI-IS) that help ensure that all infants are screened for hearing loss and receive recommend diagnostic testing and intervention services. (cdc.gov)
Develops1
- Depth perception also gradually develops during the first several months. (britannica.com)
Young1
- Streptococcus agalactiae , designated group B streptococcus (GBS), is a major cause of infections in neonates and young infants ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
Responses to speech1
- At the other extreme, occipital responses to speech might be present at birth. (jneurosci.org)
Hearing2
- Regardless of previous hearing-screening outcomes, all infants with or expire 5 years after publication unless reaffirmed, revised, or retired at or without risk factors should receive ongoing surveillance of communicative devel- before that time. (cdc.gov)
- home.2 EHDI systems should guarantee seamless transitions for infants and their hearing screening families through this process. (cdc.gov)
Categorization2
- Neural bases of categorization of simple speech and nonspeech sounds. (crossref.org)
- Our goal is to provide bilingualism researchers new conceptual and empirical tools that can help examine speech categorization in different bilingual communities without the necessity of forcing their speech categorization into discrete units and without assuming a deficit model. (frontiersin.org)
Production2
- Knight is widely known for seminal work within multiple areas of neuroscience, including prefrontal cortex function, neural oscillations, and more recently, speech perception and production. (neurolang.org)
- We explored the status of this contrast in Dutch speakers in both production and perception. (lscp.net)
Listeners2
- However, we now know that in the monolingual listener, speech perception is gradient and listeners use this gradiency to adjust subphonetic details, recover from ambiguity, and aid learning and adaptation. (frontiersin.org)
- Listeners encounter highly variable speech signals every day. (frontiersin.org)
Experiments1
- The use of Active Learning systems for stimulus selection and response modelling perception experiments. (uni-trier.de)
Detection1
- Detection of differential speech-specific processes in the temporal lobe using fMRI and a dynamic “sound morphing” technique. (crossref.org)
Months2
- In healthy normally developing infants, acuity improves rapidly within the first few months. (britannica.com)
- Infants first become sensitive at about two months to kinematic, or motion-carried information for distance, as when one surface moves in front of another. (britannica.com)