Although research suggests that responsive interactions are imperative for language
development, the advent of mobile technology means that parent-child exchanges are often …

This study examined the brain bases of early human social cognitive abilities. Specifically,
we investigated whether cortical regions implicated in adults' perception of facial …

People often talk about musical pitch using spatial metaphors. In English, for instance,
pitches can be “high” or “low”(ie, height-pitch association), whereas in other languages …

Word recognition is a balancing act: listeners must be sensitive to phonetic detail to avoid
confusing similar words, yet, at the same time, be flexible enough to adapt to phonetically …

The first comprehensive guide to research methods and technologies in psycholinguistics
and the neurobiology of language Bringing together contributions from a distinguished …

A precisely controlled automated procedure confirms a developmental decalage: Infants
acquiring English link count nouns to object categories well before they link adjectives to …

Young infants' successful performance on false belief tasks has led several researchers to
argue that there may be a core knowledge system for representing the beliefs of other …

Two studies illustrate the functional significance of a new category of prelinguistic vocalizing—
object‐directed vocalizations (ODVs)—and show that these sounds are connected to …

Research suggests that nonlinguistic sequence learning abilities are an important
contributor to language development (Conway, Bauernschmidt, Huang, & Pisoni, 2010). The …

To learn words, infants must be sensitive to native phonological contrast. While lexical tone
predominates as a source of phonemic contrast in human languages, there has been little …