Common neural basis for phoneme processing in infants and adults

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Dehaene-Lambertz, G. and Gliga, T. (2004) Common neural basis for phoneme processing in infants and adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 (8). pp. 1375-1387. ISSN 0898-929X

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Abstract

Investigating the degree of similarity between infants' and adults' representation of speech is critical to our understanding of infants' ability to acquire language. Phoneme perception plays a crucial role in language processing, and numerous behavioral studies have demonstrated similar capacities in infants and adults, but are these subserved by the same neural substrates or networks? In this article, we review event-related potential (ERP) results obtained in infants during phoneme discrimination tasks and compare them to results from the adult literature. The striking similarities observed both in behavior and ERPs between initial and mature stages suggest a continuity in processing and neural structure. We argue that infants have access at the beginning of life to phonemic representations, which are modified without training or implicit instruction, but by the statistical distributions of speech input in order to converge to the native phonemic categories.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cognitive neuroscience ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2800/2805
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2024 18:30
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 18:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94478
DOI:	10.1162/0898929042304714

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