Visual language discrimination in infancy - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2007 May 25;316(5828):1159.
doi: 10.1126/science.1137686.
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Visual language discrimination in infancy
Whitney M Weikum et al. Science. 2007.
Abstract
This study shows that 4- and 6-month-old infants can discriminate languages (English from French) just from viewing silently presented articulations. By the age of 8 months, only bilingual (French-English) infants succeed at this task. These findings reveal a surprisingly early preparedness for visual language discrimination and highlight infants' selectivity for retaining only necessary perceptual sensitivities.
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