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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

Article DOI: 10.3791/55435-v • 05:36 min • April 19th, 2017
April 19th, 2017 •
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1Psychology Department, Northwestern University

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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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Experience Tuning Link Language Cognition Evidence Infants Object Categorization Procedure Effects Shaping Early Links Sounds Cognitive Processes Method Key Questions Infant Cognition Foundational Links Objects Events World Understanding Language Development Conceptual Development Advantage Technique Nature Nurture Processes Support Infants' Language And Conceptual Development Audio Editing Software Classical Instrumental Music Lemur Vocalizations Backwards Speech
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