The desire to reduce the dependence on curated, labeled datasets and to leverage the vast
quantities of unlabeled data has triggered renewed interest in unsupervised (or self …

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 …

Reading systematically activates the left lateral occipitotemporal sulcus, at a site known as
the visual word form area (VWFA). This site is reproducible across individuals/scripts …

The human infant brain is the only known machine able to master a natural language and
develop explicit, symbolic, and communicable systems of knowledge that deliver rich …

The ontogeny of linguistic functions in the human brain remains elusive. Although some
auditory capacities are described before term, whether and how such immature cortical …

Deep in the occipitotemporal cortex lie two functional regions, the visual word form area
(VWFA) and the number form area (NFA), which are thought to play a special role in letter …

Linguistic processing is based on a close collaboration between temporal and frontal
regions connected by two pathways: the “dorsal” and “ventral pathways”(assumed to support …

Human infants, unlike even closely related primates, exhibit a remarkable capacity for
language learning. Yet how the underlying anatomical network matures remains largely …

One-year-old infants have a small receptive vocabulary and follow deictic gestures, but it is
still debated whether they appreciate the referential nature of these signals. Demonstrating …

Understanding how the young infant brain starts to categorize the flurry of ambiguous
sensory inputs coming in from its complex environment is of primary scientific interest. Here …