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Early Language Development
last update  25-02-2010
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,...more
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