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COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented
changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with
caregivers, with limited access ...
Input quality and speech perception development in bilingual infants' first year of life
(WILEY, 2022)
Individual differences in infants’ native phonological development have been
linked to the quantity and quality of infant-directed
speech (IDS). The effects of
parental and infant bilingualism on this relation in 131 ...
Simulating the situated-self drives hippocampo-cortical engagement during inner narration of events
(OXFORD, 2022)
We often use inner narration when thinking about past and future events. The present paradigm explicitly addresses the influence of the language used in inner narration on the hippocampus-dependent event construction ...
The genetic architecture of language functional connectivity
(ELSEVIER, 2022)
Language is a unique trait of the human species, of which the genetic architecture remains largely unknown. Through language disorders studies, many candidate genes were identified. However, such complex and multi- factorial ...
Want to quickly adapt to distorted speech and become a better listener? Read lips, not text
(PLOS, 2022)
When listening to distorted speech, does one become a better listener by looking at the face of the speaker or by reading subtitles that are presented along with the speech signal? We examined this question in two experiments ...
Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech
(ELSEVIER, 2022)
The majority of infants with permanent congenital hearing loss fall significantly behind their
normal hearing peers in the development of receptive and expressive oral communication skills.
Independent of any prosthetic ...
Enhanced disengagement of auditory attention and phonological skills in action video gamers
(Elsevier, 2022)
Video games play a major role in the everyday life of children, teenagers, and adults. Several studies show that
action video games (AVGs) improve visual attentional efficiency. AVGs also appear to improve reading speed ...