Early Language Development
Bridging brain and behaviour
Published on 14. February 2008
Book
Hardback
263 pages
978-90-272-3475-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book establishes a dialog between experimental psychology and electrophysiology in the study of infant language development. On the one hand, traditional methods of investigation into language development have reached a high level of refinement despite being confined to observing infants' overt behavioral responses. On the other hand, more recent methods such as neuroimaging and, in particular, event-related potentials provide access to implicit responses from the infant brain while often relying on rather gross experimental contrasts. The aims of this book are both to provide neuroscientists with an overview of the ingenious behavioral paradigms that have been developed in the field of language development and to introduce the power of neurophysiological indices to behavioral experimentalists. The two approaches are compared at various levels of processing: phonetic discrimination, categorical perception, speech segmentation, syllable and word recognition, semantic priming. A general discussion brings together the two approaches, highlights their respective contributions and limitations and proposes constructive ideas for future integration.
Reviews / Votes
Although Early Language Development does not discuss enough methodological issues to be a true introduction on how to use ERP data, and this probably always requires experience in a laboratory setting, some of the best studies in the volume show us exciting future potentials for this field; in particular the possibility to validate theories of cognitive development by combining brain and behavioral studies. -- Suzanne V. H. van der Feest, University of Pennsylvania, in The Journal of Child Language 37: 217-221More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3475-9 (9789027234759)
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Content
1. List of Contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Introduction to early language development: Bridging brain and behavior (by Thierry, Guillaume); 4. 1. The method of event-related brain potentials in the study of cognitive processes: A tutorial (by Mannel, Claudia); 5. 2. Event-related potential studies of early language processing at the phoneme, word, and sentence levels (by Conboy, Barbara T.); 6. 3. Behavioral and electrophysiological exploration of early word segmentation in French: Distinguishing the syllabic and lexical levels. (by Nazzi, Thierry); 7. 4. Reflections on reflections of infant word recognition (by Kooijman, Valesca); 8. 5. The onset of word form recognition: A behavioural and neurophysiological study (by Thierry, Guillaume); 9. 6. Neurophysiological correlates of picture-word priming in one-year-olds (by Friedrich, Manuela); 10. 7. The effects of early word learning on brain development (by Sheehan, Elizabeth A.); 11. 8. From perception to grammar (by Mehler, Jacques); 12. 9. The development of syntactic brain correlates during the first years of life (by Friederici, Angela D.); 13. 10. Language acquisition and ERP approaches: Prospects and challenges (by Poeppel, David); 14. Glossary; 15. Index