More than 10% of births are preterm, and the long-term consequences on sensory and
semantic processing of non-linguistic information remain poorly understood. 17 very preterm …

The power and precision with which humans link language to cognition is unique to our
species. By 3–4 months of age, infants have already established this link: simply listening to …

Objectives: Children born preterm have a high prevalence of neurocognitive deficits early in
life. We examined whether the neural correlates of lexical access are atypical in 9-year-old …

Preterm infants are at increased risk for cognitive disorders, including impairments in
recognition memory. This study evaluated the effects of extreme prematurity on the neural …

Understanding the rapidly developing building blocks of speech perception in infancy
requires a close look at the auditory prerequisites for speech sound processing. Pioneering …

The majority of research examining early auditory‐semantic processing and organization is
based on studies of meaningful relations between words and referents. However, a …

To process a stimulus as a holistic entity, the human brain must be able to conjoin its
different features. Previous evidence suggests that this ability emerges during the first …

Cortical sensory representations can be reorganized by sensory exposure in an epoch of
early development. The adaptive role of this type of plasticity for natural sounds in sensory …

During the last trimester of human gestation, neurons reach their final destination and
establish long-and short-distance connections. Due to the difficulties obtaining functional …

The development of auditory language perception proceeds from acoustic features via
phonological representations to words and their relations in a sentence. Neurophysiological …