Neural auditory processing and prelinguistic communication build the foundation for later
language development, but how these two are associated is not well known. The current …

This research was funded through the American Speech and Hearing Foundation's 2012
StudentResearch Grant in Early Childhood Language Development awarded to Vanessa …

Purpose The toddler years are a critical period for language development and growth. We
investigated how event-related potentials (ERPs) to repeated and novel nonwords are …

Objectives: Children born preterm have a high prevalence of neurocognitive deficits early in
life. We examined whether the neural correlates of lexical access are atypical in 9-year-old …

The neural processes underpinning cognition and language development in infancy are of
great interest. We investigated EEG power and coherence in infancy, as a reflection of …

The goal of the present chapter is to relate what is currently known regarding the brain's
involvement in language processing during the early years of life. The primary focus will be …

Newborns habituate to repeated auditory stimuli, and discriminate syllables, generating
opportunities for early language learning. This study investigated trial-by-trial changes in …

Infants' ability to recognize words in continuous speech is vital for building a vocabulary.
Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) reveal a clear recognition response for familiarized words …

Because nervous system development may be affected by prematurity, many prematurely
born children present language or cognitive disorders at school age. The goal of this study is …

Associations between efficient processing of brief, rapidly presented, successive stimuli and
language learning impairments (LLI) in older children and adults have been well …