Dissociating Cortical Activity during Processing of Native and Non-Native Audiovisual Speech from Early to Late Infancy

Initially, infants are capable of discriminating phonetic contrasts across the world’s languages. Starting between seven and ten months of age, they gradually lose this ability through a process of perceptual narrowing. Although traditionally investigated with isolated speech sounds, such narrowing...

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Main Authors: Eswen Fava, Rachel Hull, Heather Bortfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-08-01
Series:Brain Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/4/3/471