The Specificity of the Neural Response to Speech at Birth

Autor/inn/en	May, Lillian; Gervain, Judit; Carreiras, Manuel; Werker, Janet F.
Titel	The Specificity of the Neural Response to Speech at Birth
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 21 (2018) 3, (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.12564
Schlagwörter	Speech Communication; Birth; Neonates; Prenatal Influences; English; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Familiarity; Comparative Analysis; Spanish; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geburt; Neugeborenes Kind; Pränataler Einfluss; English language; Englisch; Spanisch; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	In this work we ask whether at birth, the human brain responds uniquely to speech, or if similar activation also occurs to a non-speech surrogate 'language'. We compare neural activation in newborn infants to the language heard "in utero" (English), to an unfamiliar language (Spanish), and to a whistled surrogate language (Silbo Gomero) that, while used by humans to communicate, is not speech. Anterior temporal areas of the neonate cortex are activated in response to both familiar and unfamiliar spoken language, but these classic language areas are not activated to the whistled surrogate form. These results suggest that at the time human infants emerge from the womb, the neural preparation for language is specialized to speech. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01