A continuing debate in language acquisition research is whether there are critical periods
(CPs) in development during which the system is most responsive to environmental input …

In the present article, the basic research using the mismatch negativity (MMN) and
analogous results obtained by using the magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other brain …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Infants' speech perception skills show a dual change towards the end of the first year of life.
Not only does non-native speech perception decline, as often shown, but native language …

The human infant brain is the only known machine able to master a natural language and
develop explicit, symbolic, and communicable systems of knowledge that deliver rich …

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing emphasis on studying the link
between infant speech perception and later language acquisition. This research has yielded …

Failure to develop normal language comprehension is an early warning sign of autism, but
the neural mechanisms underlying this signature deficit are unknown. This is because of an …

In this article, we provide a critical review of the literature on speech perception and
phonological processing in infancy, and in populations with different experiential histories as …

During the first year of life, infants pass important milestones in language development. We
review some of the experimental evidence concerning these milestones in the domains of …

The discovery of words in continuous speech is one of the first challenges faced by infants
during language acquisition. This process is partially facilitated by statistical learning, the …