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ERP components in infants – Neural correlates of word stress processing, cross-modal word priming, and online lexical-semantic learning| old_uid | 5266 |
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| title | ERP components in infants – Neural correlates of word stress processing, cross-modal word priming, and online lexical-semantic learning |
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| start_date | 2008/09/15 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Our research group investigates language-related ERP components in infants and young children, which can be utilised as correlates of both the development of early language skills and the maturation of specific brain mechanisms involved in early language acquisition. The comparison of the ERPs of different age groups or of those of age-matched children with different behavioural language development moreover provides information about the relation between specific perceptual or neurocognitive processes and the successive progression of children’s behavioural language capabilities.
The acquisition of words, i.e., learning that an arbitrary acoustic-phonological pattern refers to a certain meaning, is the basic step in the process of language learning. In my talk I will focus on three topics of word processing in infancy: (1) the discrimination of word stress that is assumed to facilitate word form acquisition by cueing word boundaries, (2) the development of semantic integration mechanisms that might be involved in the modification of existing lexical-semantic representations or the establishment of new representations, and (3) the learning of new word forms and their mappings onto a certain meaning within a single experimental session. |
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| responsibles | Waszak |
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