Journal article
Cascading and Multisensory Influences on Speech Perception Development
Mind, brain and education, Vol.12(4), pp.212-223
12/2018
DOI: 10.1111/mbe.12162
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Over the first weeks and months following birth, infants' initial, broad‐based perceptual sensitivities become honed to the characteristics of their native language. In this article, we review this process of emerging specialization within the context of a cascading “critical period” (CP) framework, in which periods of maximal openness to experience of different aspects of language occur at sequential, overlapping points in development. Importantly, as infants' experience of speech is not limited to auditory signals, but is informed by—for example—their experience of talking faces and their own oral motor movements, we review the trajectory of perceptual specialization in multisensory language processing. Throughout, we highlight the impact of increasing perceptual specialization on later language outcomes (e.g., word learning, foundations of syntax, literacy), and consider how the outcomes can be compromised if/when the timing of perceptual specialization has been perturbed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cascading and Multisensory Influences on Speech Perception Development
- Creators
- Dawoon Choi - University of British ColumbiaAlexis K. Black - University of British ColumbiaJanet F. Werker - University of British Columbia
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Mind, brain and education, Vol.12(4), pp.212-223
- Publisher
- Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
- DOI
- 10.1111/mbe.12162
- ISSN
- 1751-2271
- eISSN
- 1751-228X
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN‐2015‐03967) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (435‐2014‐0917)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2018
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984627222502771
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