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View article: Production of intonational phrase boundaries in Dutch
Production of intonational phrase boundaries in Dutch Open
In spoken language, major prosodic boundaries can be marked by three types of prosodic cues: pitch change, final lengthening, and pause. Although these cues appear cross-linguistically, their relative weight in signaling boundaries is cons…
View article: The Influence of Prenatal Language Exposure on the Use of Pitch in Newborns’ Vocalisations: A Systematic Review
The Influence of Prenatal Language Exposure on the Use of Pitch in Newborns’ Vocalisations: A Systematic Review Open
Prenatal language exposure has been shown to influence early speech perception, with evidence suggesting that the acquisition of certain aspects of native-language prosody may begin before birth. While this notion has been well-supported f…
View article: How Infants Direct Their Gaze to Faces in the Presence of Other Objects: The Development of Face Preference Between 4 and 7 Months After Birth
How Infants Direct Their Gaze to Faces in the Presence of Other Objects: The Development of Face Preference Between 4 and 7 Months After Birth Open
From early in development, infants process faces in their environment differentially from other items. By around 6 months of age, they are able to orient toward faces in the presence of distractor items. This paper aimed to assess whether …
View article: The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes
The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes Open
There is robust evidence that infants' gestures and vocalisations and caregivers' contingent responses predict later child vocabulary. Recent studies suggest that dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' responses are more…
View article: Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific Open
Limited studies have examined demographic differences in children’s vocabulary in longitudinal samples, while there are questions regarding the duration, direction, and magnitude of these effects across development. In this longitudinal st…
View article: Assessing language in infants with an elevated likelihood or diagnosis of autism: The association between parent- versus researcher-administered measures
Assessing language in infants with an elevated likelihood or diagnosis of autism: The association between parent- versus researcher-administered measures Open
Purpose: Infants later diagnosed with autism typically have smaller vocabularies than their peers. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory (CDI) and the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) are key tools for assessing i…
View article: Women are expected to smile: Preliminary evidence for the role of gender in the neurophysiological processing of adult emotional faces in 3‐year‐old children
Women are expected to smile: Preliminary evidence for the role of gender in the neurophysiological processing of adult emotional faces in 3‐year‐old children Open
Children form stereotyped expectations about the appropriateness of certain emotions for men versus women during the preschool years, based on cues from their social environments. Although ample research has examined the development of gen…
View article: Editorial: Early social experience: impact on early and later social-cognitive development
Editorial: Early social experience: impact on early and later social-cognitive development Open
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View article: Robustness of the cognitive gains in 7‐month‐old bilingual infants: A close multi‐center replication of Kovács and Mehler (2009)
Robustness of the cognitive gains in 7‐month‐old bilingual infants: A close multi‐center replication of Kovács and Mehler (2009) Open
We present an exact replication of Experiment 2 from Kovács and Mehler's 2009 study, which showed that 7‐month‐old infants who are raised bilingually exhibit a cognitive advantage. In the experiment, a sound cue, following an AAB or ABB pa…
View article: Face-to-face contact during infancy: How the development of gaze to faces feeds into infants’ vocabulary outcomes
Face-to-face contact during infancy: How the development of gaze to faces feeds into infants’ vocabulary outcomes Open
Infants acquire their first words through interactions with social partners. In the first year of life, infants receive a high frequency of visual and auditory input from faces, making faces a potential strong social cue in facilitating wo…
View article: Robustness of the rule‐learning effect in 7‐month‐old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999)
Robustness of the rule‐learning effect in 7‐month‐old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999) Open
We conducted a close replication of the seminal work by Marcus and colleagues from 1999, which showed that after a brief auditory exposure phase, 7‐month‐old infants were able to learn and generalize a rule to novel syllables not previousl…
View article: The Vocabulary of Infants with an Elevated Likelihood and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Infant Language Studies Using the CDI and MSEL
The Vocabulary of Infants with an Elevated Likelihood and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Infant Language Studies Using the CDI and MSEL Open
Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are typically accompanied by atypical language development, which can be noticeable even before diagnosis. The siblings of children diagnosed with ASD are at elevated likelihood for ASD diagnosis…
View article: Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability. Open
Being exposed to narrative fiction may provide us with practice in dealing with social interactions and thereby enhance our ability to engage in mentalizing (understanding other people’s mental states). The current study uses a confirmator…
View article: Two-year-olds at elevated risk for ASD can learn novel words from their parents
Two-year-olds at elevated risk for ASD can learn novel words from their parents Open
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have smaller vocabularies in infancy compared to typically-developing children. To understand whether their smaller vocabularies stem from problems in learning, our study compare…
View article: Development of the N400 for Word Learning in the First 2 Years of Life: A Systematic Review
Development of the N400 for Word Learning in the First 2 Years of Life: A Systematic Review Open
The N400 ERP component is a direct neural index of word meaning. Studies show that the N400 component is already present in early infancy, albeit often delayed. Many researchers capitalize on this finding, using the N400 component to bette…
View article: The YOUth study: Rationale, design, and study procedures
The YOUth study: Rationale, design, and study procedures Open
Behavioral development in children shows large inter-individual variation, and is driven by the interplay between biological, psychological, and environmental processes. However, there is still little insight into how these processes inter…
View article: Evaluating the Scope of Language Impairments in a Patient with Triple X Syndrome: A Brief Report
Evaluating the Scope of Language Impairments in a Patient with Triple X Syndrome: A Brief Report Open
The phenotype of triple X syndrome comprises a variety of physical, psychiatric, and cognitive features. Recent evidence suggests that patients are prone to severe language impairments. However, it remains unclear whether verbal impairment…
View article: Brain Responses to Faces and Facial Expressions in 5-Month-Olds: An fNIRS Study
Brain Responses to Faces and Facial Expressions in 5-Month-Olds: An fNIRS Study Open
Processing faces and understanding facial expressions are crucial skills for social communication. In adults, basic face processing and facial emotion processing rely on specific interacting brain networks. In infancy, however, little is k…
View article: No Own-Age Bias in Children’s Gaze-Cueing Effects
No Own-Age Bias in Children’s Gaze-Cueing Effects Open
Sensitivity to another person's eye gaze is vital for social and language development. In this eye-tracking study, a group of 74 children (6-14 years old) performed a gaze-cueing experiment in which another person's shift in eye gaze poten…
View article: Distributional Information Shapes Infants’ Categorization of Objects
Distributional Information Shapes Infants’ Categorization of Objects Open
While distributional learning has been successfully demonstrated for auditory categorization, this study tests whether this mechanism also applies to object categorization: Ten‐month‐olds ( n = 38) were familiarized with either a unimodal …
View article: Individual Differences in Infant Speech Segmentation: Achieving the Lexical Shift
Individual Differences in Infant Speech Segmentation: Achieving the Lexical Shift Open
We report a large‐scale electrophysiological study of infant speech segmentation, in which over 100 English‐acquiring 9‐month‐olds were exposed to unfamiliar bisyllabic words embedded in sentences (e.g., He saw a wild eagle up there ), aft…
View article: Pre-verbal infants perceive emotional facial expressions categorically
Pre-verbal infants perceive emotional facial expressions categorically Open
Adults perceive emotional expressions categorically, with discrimination being faster and more accurate between expressions from different emotion categories (i.e. blends with two different predominant emotions) than between two stimuli fr…
View article: The Interplay between Gaze Following, Emotion Recognition, and Empathy across Adolescence; a Pubertal Dip in Performance?
The Interplay between Gaze Following, Emotion Recognition, and Empathy across Adolescence; a Pubertal Dip in Performance? Open
During puberty a dip in face recognition is often observed, possibly caused by heightened levels of gonadal hormones which in turn affects the re-organization of relevant cortical circuitry. In the current study we investigated whether a p…
View article: The proto-lexicon: segmenting word-like units from speech
The proto-lexicon: segmenting word-like units from speech Open
There is growing evidence from experimental studies that infants start acquiring a vocabulary already when they are between six to nine months old (Bergelson & Swingley, 2012; Parise & Csibra, 2012; Tincoff & Jusczyk, 1999). Clearly, infan…