Event-related potential features indexing central auditory discrimination by newborns

Čėponiené, Rita; Kushnerenko, Elena; Fellman, Vineta; Renlund, Martin; Suominen, Kalervo; Näätänen, Risto

doi:10.1016/s0926-6410(01)00093-3

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“…The LDN is a second deflection sometimes found in newborn studies (e.g., Čeponiene et al, 2002;Kushnerenko et al, 2002a;Martynova et al, 2003), but more often in children (for a review, see Cheour et al, 2001). The LDN seems to decrease with age (Cheour et al, 2001).…”

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“…Most frequently, the infant data have been offline filtered with a 1-Hz high-pass filter (e.g. Čeponiene et al, 2002;Cheour et al, 2002a;Kushnerenko et al, 2002aKushnerenko et al, , 2002bHuotilainen et al, 2003;Martynova et al, 2003).…”

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“…It was shown that a mismatch response was elicited both to changes in speech stimuli (e.g., Leppänen et al, 1999;Cheour et al, 2002b) and to changes in pure or complex tones (e.g., Leppänen et al, 1997;Čeponiene et al, 2002;Huotilainen et al, 2003). An oddball paradigm has been used to demonstrate that sleeping newborns are able to learn to discriminate small differences in speech sounds.…”

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“…The LDN occurs at latencies of 300 -750 ms in newborns (Čeponiene et al, 2002;Kushnerenko et al, 2002a;Martynova et al, 2003). The functional significance of this component is still unknown.…”

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“…The MMN has been observed for both simple auditory discrimination, as well as relatively complex and even abstract regularities (20). Infants' MMRs can be measured from birth (21,22) and show a specific developmental pattern, beginning with a positive response in early infancy to a more mature negative-going MMN later on (23-25). Notably, MMN development is feature-specific; that is, an adult-like negativity may occur at different developmental times across various auditory features (23).…”

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Auditory perception at the root of language learning

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Männel

2012

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Learning a spoken language presupposes efficient auditory functions. In the present event-related potential study, we tested whether and how basic auditory processes are related to online learning of a linguistic rule in infants and adults. Participants listened to frequent standard stimuli, which were interspersed with infrequent pitch deviants and rule deviants, violating a nonadjacent dependency between two syllables. Only infants who showed the more mature mismatch response for the pitch deviants (i.e., a negativity) showed a mismatch response to the rule deviants. Concordantly, the small group of adults who showed evidence of rule learning showed larger mismatch effects for pitch processing. We conclude that the ability to extract linguistic rules develops in early infancy and is tightly linked to functional aspects of basic auditory mechanisms.language acquisition | AXB rules | pitch perception | mismatch negativity H uman language is based on an acoustically transmitted signal. The successful language learner needs to decode the linguistic content of a complex auditory signal into its component units and their relation to each other, thus deriving words and rules. Although sufficient speech input is widely considered to be crucial for language learning, the perceptual abilities that form the gateway to spoken language have long been neglected in first and second language acquisition research. Basic auditory perception may, however, be an important determinant of language learning processes across the range of normal and abnormal development.There is empirical evidence supporting the idea that early auditory abilities impact on later outcomes of language development in normal infants and populations with language-related disorders (1-3). Furthermore, auditory brainstem responses in language-impaired children suggest that low-level auditory processes contribute to the pathogenesis of language disorders (4). In adults, individual differences in perceptual abilities correlate with language-processing abilities in their native and a second language (5, 6). The findings suggest a potential causal relationship between basic auditory processing ability and the efficiency of language learning in infancy and adulthood.Although infants do not produce complex language in their first year of life, they show remarkable abilities to extract regular patterns from speech input early on. Eight-month-old infants, and even newborns, have been shown to be sensitive to transitional probabilities between syllables defining word-like units (7,8). Syllable repetitions can be detected from birth (9) and dependencies between nonadjacent units of speech can be detected as early as 4 mo of age (10). Learners seem to be able to exploit various distributional and acoustic cues to detect words and rules in speech input. Infants, for example, take advantage of prosodic cues for detecting possible words in the linguistic input (11). Similarly, prosodic cues seem to assist adults' extraction of grammatical patterns from speech input (12, 1...

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Perceptual Development

Johnson

Hannon

2015

Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science

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Infants' perceptual systems are the primary means to acquire and interpret knowledge about events, objects, and people in the world around them. This chapter begins with discussion of theories of perceptual development and its consequences for children's cognitive and social development. We then discuss neural foundations of perception and the emergence and maturation of sensory systems before and after birth, followed by detailed sections on audition, vision, and intermodal perception. Throughout, we focus on questions of how the developing child extracts meaningful information from the sensory array—that is, how the observer detects, synthesizes, and interprets sensory input so as to yield perception of structured events and objects—and how effects of experience on perceptual development interact with developmental timing and what has already been acquired. We focus also on developmental mechanisms—growth, experience, and learning—and we examine as well the malleability, or plasticity, of perceptual systems during development. The chapter concludes with discussion of how different theoretical views may be reconciled in light of the developing child in a wider context.

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Event-related potential features indexing central auditory discrimination by newborns

Cited by 95 publications

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Newborns discriminate novel from harmonic sounds: A study using magnetoencephalography

Newborns discriminate novel from harmonic sounds: A study using magnetoencephalography

Auditory perception at the root of language learning

Perceptual Development

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