From Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Brain Mechanisms of Language Learning
will present the talk titled
Does temporal attention boost infants’ language development?
In infancy research, language and attention development have generally been approached as separate processes. However, a recent theoretical proposal claims that infants’ temporal attention skills may be key to their language development (De Diego-Balaguer et al., 2016). Today, I will present two eye-tracking studies in a group of 15-month-old infants that aim to confirm this hypothesis by exploring 1) infants’ spatio-temporal attention skills and 2) their non-adjacent dependencies (NAD) learning skills, from an audiovisual talking face. I will first discuss the results and implications of both experiments separately, and then the potential link between the two.
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