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Attentional Fluctuations, Cognitive Flexibility, and Bilingualism in Kindergarteners
(Behavioral Sciences, 2019)
The idea of a bilingual advantage in aspects of cognitive control—including cognitive
flexibility, inhibition, working memory, and attention—is disputed. Using a sample of kindergarten children, the present study investigated ...
Does the visual attention span play a role in the morphological processing of orthographic stimuli?
(Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2019)
We investigated whether the link between visual attention (VA) span and reading is modulated by the presence of
morphemes. Second and fourth grade children, with Basque as their first language, named morphologically complex ...
Language modality shapes the dynamics of word and sign recognition
(Cognition, 2019)
Spoken words and signs both consist of structured sub-lexical units. While phonemes unfold in time in the case of
the spoken signal, visual sub-lexical units such as location and handshape are produced simultaneously in ...
Functional plasticity associated with language learning in adults
(NeuroImage, 2019)
Learning a new language in adulthood is increasingly common and among the most difficult tasks attempted by adults. Adult language learners thus offer an excellent window into the nature of learning-dependent plasticity. ...
Whistling shares a common tongue with speech: bioacoustics from real-time MRI of the human vocal tract
(Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019)
Most human communication is carried by modulations of the voice. However, a wide range of cultures has developed alternative forms of communication that make use of a whistled sound source. For example, whistling is used ...
Acceptance of lexical overlap by monolingual and bilingual toddlers
(International Journal of Bilingualism, 2019)
Aims and Objectives: Mutual exclusivity refers to children’s assumption that there are oneto-one correspondences between words and their referents. It is proposed to guide the process of fast-mapping when children encounter ...
Sensitivity to amplitude envelope rise time in infancy and vocabulary development at 3 years: A significant relationship
(Developmental Science, 2019)
Here we report, for the first time, a relationship between sensitivity to amplitude envelope
rise time in infants and their later vocabulary development. Recent research in auditory
neuroscience has revealed that amplitude ...
Delayed development of phonological constancy in toddlers at family risk for dyslexia
(Infant Behavior and Development, 2019)
Phonological constancy refers to infants’ ability to disregard variations in the phonetic realisation of speech sounds that do not indicate lexical
contrast, e.g., when listening to accented speech. In typically-developing ...
Integrating Bilingualism, Verbal Fluency, and Executive Functioning across the Lifespan
(Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019)
Bilingual experience has an impact on an individual’s linguistic processing
and general cognitive abilities. The relation between these
linguistic and non-linguistic domains, in turn, is mediated by individual
linguistic ...