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Auditory rule learning across early childhood: Does speech matter?| title | Auditory rule learning across early childhood: Does speech matter? |
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| start_date | 2024/10/08 |
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| schedule | 9h30-10h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle de conférences B011 |
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| summary | Behavioral and neurophysiological studies provide ample evidence for the learning of various types of
statistical regularities that may be important for language acquisition across early infancy. In line with
this research, I will present evidence that statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies between
simple tones is not unique to humans, present potentially from birth, and can be modeled by an
unsupervised neural network with high biological plausibility. Yet, some studies indicate that learning
of regularities in speech vs. non-speech stimuli may not follow the same developmental pathways. In
our own research, we found clear indication of learning of a complex tone grammar in 3-year-olds and
a pattern of decreasing sensitivity to a similar speech-based grammar from 2 years to 4 years of age. I
will discuss potential reasons explaining why, across developmental time, learning of rules that may
be important for language paradoxically seems to be easier in non-speech than in speech stimuli. |
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| responsibles | NC |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/10/02 08:52 UTC |
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