Orienting to salient events in the environment is a first step in the development of attention in
young infants. Electrophysiological studies have indicated that in newborns and young …

The possible links between music and language continue to intrigue scientists interested in
the nature of these two types of knowledge, their evolution, and their instantiation in the …

Behavioral data establish a dramatic change in infants' phonetic perception between 6 and
12 months of age. Foreign‐language phonetic discrimination significantly declines with …

It has long been thought that the prefrontal cortex, as the seat of most higher brain functions,
is functionally silent during most of infancy. This review highlights recent work concerned …

Research on event‐related potential (ERP) correlates of auditory deviance‐detection in
newborns provided inconsistent results; temporal and topographic ERP characteristics …

An important mechanism for learning speech sounds in the first year of life is “distributional
learning,” ie, learning by simply listening to the frequency distributions of the speech sounds …

The present study investigated the brain mechanisms involved during young children's
receptive familiarization with new words, and whether the dynamics of these mechanisms …

Introduction Traveling pressure waves (ie, sounds) are produced by the movements or
actions of objects. So sounds primarily convey information about what is happening in the …

Distributional learning of speech sounds (ie, learning from simple exposure to frequency
distributions of speech sounds in the environment) has been observed in the lab repeatedly …

We report a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and the scalp distribution of the
normalized peak amplitude values for speech-related auditory Event-related Potentials …