Hearing, Listening, and Understanding: Auditory Development in Infancy

Fernald, Anne

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“…Humans rely upon sounds to detect danger, such as the cries of monkeys in the South American and African rainforests or the report of a gun being fired. However, many newborns experience difficulty with distinguishing sounds (Trehub and Schellenberg, 1995) and with recognizing some parts of the sound spectrum (Fernald, 2001). This limitation is often overcome within the first few months of life (Tharpe and Ashmead, 2001), and infants show a greater preference for consonant tones (Trainor and Heinmiller, 1998;Zentner and Kagan, 1996) and sounds that lack complexity.…”

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confidence: 99%

Designing Cognitive Stimulating Environments for Infants and Toddlers

Kopec

LaCapra

2008

Journal of Interior Design

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The purpose of the study was to review existing literature on the development of cognitive functioning and subsequent interpretations of environmental stimuli to develop an evidence‐based hypothetical design for a prototype nursery to enhance the perception and cognition of infants and toddlers. To this end, literature on the cognitive development of both humans and animals was analyzed as it relates to the evolution of neurobiological processes to identify specific developmental capacities of infants and toddlers in the perception and detection of environmental stimuli. From this evidence‐based knowledge, the researchers developed hypothetical designs as a starting point for further study. The methodology used for the study centered on a review of existing literature about biological and neurological development of sensory perception and the detection of stimuli. More specifically, the researchers looked at the neurobiological processes that enable infants and toddlers to detect sensation, and at the ways in which environmental sensations may be enhanced in order to strengthen neural connections. As part of this analysis, the researchers considered evolutionary perspectives, particularly as they relate to elements found in nature, and analyzed literature pertaining to children who were denied access to sensory stimulation during their formative years. The result was the development of a hypothetical prototype interior environment that could replicate the variations of basic stimulation patterns found within nature. The subsequent data were then analyzed and cross‐referenced with existing research to form suppositions on safety and feasibility. The end result was the development of a prototype nursery as a hypothetical solution to enhancing sensory stimulation of children in their formative years, one that can now be implemented and studied further to determine its efficacy and impact on the development of infants and toddlers.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Designing Cognitive Stimulating Environments for Infants and Toddlers

Kopec

LaCapra

2008

Journal of Interior Design

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“…), she cannot understand any lexical meaning. On the other hand, she does perceive speech as a specific input and not only as a ‘voice melody’ (Fernald, ; Vouloumanos and Werker, ). Infant‐directed speech (IDS; Fernald, ; Kaplan et al ., ) will capture her attention more than adult‐directed speech (Pegg et al ., ).…”

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The function of language in parent‐infant psychotherapy

Salomonsson

2017

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Parent-infant psychotherapy, a rather new field in psychoanalysis, raises questions of how to conceptualize the clinical process. Previous publications have used semiotic concepts to account for the therapist's non-verbal communication and investigated the countertransference, including what the baby might grasp of its variations. The present paper focuses on another argument for using verbal interventions to a baby in therapy; they present him with a symbolic order that differs from that of the parent. The qualitative difference between the parent's and the analyst's address is conceptualized by Dolto's term parler vrai. The therapeutic leverage is not the analytic interventions' lexical content but their message that words can be used to expose conflicts. Thereby, one can transform warded-off desires into demands that can be negotiated with one's objects. The reasons why this address catches the baby's attention are discussed. A prerequisite for such attention is that the infant brain is prewired for perceiving words as a special communicative mode. Relevant neuroscientific research is reviewed in regard to this question. The presentation relies on concepts by Dolto, Lacan and Winnicott and findings from neuroscience and developmental psychology. It also briefly discusses Chomsky's linguistic concepts in relation to these therapies.

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“…Various studies have been conducted on infant prosody [16][17][18] and the paralinguistic information it conveys [19,20]. However, Nathani et al [21] pointed out that there is a scarcity of studies on the prelinguistic vocal development of children with hearing impairment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Suprasegmental Features of Ci Children Via Classification of Pre-Linguistic Utterances: Two Longitudinal Case Studies

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Background:The speech prosody of young children who have CIs has not been the subject of detailed investigation. This case study is a longitudinal investigation of the vocalizations of two young children with CIs. The aims were to examine the suprasegmental characteristics of the prelinguistic utterances of these CI children and to develop a method for deriving phonoprosodic classifications using acoustical and auditory analyses. Material and Method:Spontaneous productions by two congenitally hearing-impaired Greek children fitted with a Nucleus-24 multichannel CI (ages 1: 10 and 2: 7; post-implant ages 0: 0 and 0: 6) were sampled for 6 months and, following transcription, classification of protophones was made. The analysis aimed to detect the frequency of occurrence of different protophone types in the infants' utterances and to examine utterance duration and pitch contour via spectrography. Utterance characteristics were analyzed in relation to a) child's age and b) post-implant age.Results: At post-implant age of 6 months, the younger and earlier implanted child showed more prelinguistic vocalizations and more complex structures than the older, later fitted child. The older, later CI recipient produced CV vocalizations at the beginning of implantation and gained a facility for frequent CV productions after 4 months of CI use. Conclusions:The findings are in agreement with other studies which observe that later CI recipients produce CV combinations at earlier phases of the prelexical period until the necessary auditory input is provided by CIs. Protophone vocalizations serve as a comparative parameter of speech production level in pre-lingual speech.

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Hearing, Listening, and Understanding: Auditory Development in Infancy

Cited by 13 publications

References 77 publications

Designing Cognitive Stimulating Environments for Infants and Toddlers

Designing Cognitive Stimulating Environments for Infants and Toddlers

The function of language in parent‐infant psychotherapy

Suprasegmental Features of Ci Children Via Classification of Pre-Linguistic Utterances: Two Longitudinal Case Studies

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