A continuing debate in language acquisition research is whether there are critical periods
(CPs) in development during which the system is most responsive to environmental input …

The authors examine the effects of poverty-related adversity on child development, drawing
upon psychobiological principles of experiential canalization and the biological embedding …

Abstract Language-processing functions follow heterogeneous developmental trajectories.
The human embryo can already distinguish vowels in utero, but grammatical complexity is …

The mechanisms underlying the acquisition of speech-production ability in human infancy
are not well understood. We tracked 4–12-mo-old English-learning infants' and adults' eye …

In this article, we begin with a summary of the evidence for perceptual narrowing for various
aspects of language (eg, vowel and consonant contrasts, tone languages, visual language …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Multisensory processes are fundamental in scaffolding perception, cognition, learning, and
behavior. How and when stimuli from different sensory modalities are integrated rather than …

The impact of bilingual exposure on language learning has not been systematically studied
in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This study compared the social abilities and …

The influence of speech production on speech perception is well established in adults.
However, because adults have a long history of both perceiving and producing speech, the …

Infants growing up in bilingual environments succeed at learning two languages. What
adaptive processes enable them to master the more complex nature of bilingual input? One …