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Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants’ Object Categorization
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Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants’ Object Categorization

Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants’ Object Categorization

DOI:
10.3791/55435-v

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05:35 min

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April 19, 2017

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1Psychology Department,Northwestern University

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  • 00:05Title
  • 00:54Create Soundtracks
  • 02:24Experimental Procedure
  • 03:52Results: Infants Exposed to Lemur Vocalizations Preferred the Novel Test Image
  • 04:36Conclusion

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At 3-4 months, listening to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations boosts infants' cognition; by 6 months, only human vocalizations exert this cognitive advantage. We describe an exposure manipulation that reveals the powerful shaping role of experience as infants specify which sounds to link to cognition and which to tune out.

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Language DevelopmentCognitive DevelopmentInfant CognitionSound-object AssociationsAudio StimuliLemur VocalizationsBackwards SpeechAudio EditingCategorization TaskNature Vs. Nurture

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