ArticleDevelopmental science2019
Fourteen-month-old infants track the language comprehension of communicative partners.
Article in Developmental science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Development of the N400 for Word Learning in the First 2 Years of Life: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
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- Event-related potentials indicate differential neural reactivity to species and valence information in vocal stimuli in sleeping dogs.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A Preliminary Longitudinal Study on Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) Components in the First Year of Life.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Differences in dogs' event-related potentials in response to human and dog vocal stimuli; a non-invasive study.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Semantic systems are mentalistically activated for and by social partners.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Learning Through Processing: Toward an Integrated Approach to Early Word Learning.Annual review of linguistics · 2022Article
- Neural processes underlying statistical learning for speech segmentation in dogs.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Event-related potentials reveal limited readiness to access phonetic details during word processing in dogs.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- The Comprehension Boost in Early Word Learning: Older Infants Are Better Learners.Child development perspectives · 2020Article
- Electrophysiological investigation of infants' understanding of understanding.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- Fourteen-month-old infants track the language comprehension of communicative partners.Developmental science · 2019Article
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- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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Abstract
Infants employ sophisticated mechanisms to acquire their first language, including some that rely on taking the perspective of adults as speakers or listeners. When do infants first show awareness of what other people understand? We tested 14-month-old infants in two experiments measuring event-related potentials. In Experiment 1, we established that infants produce the N400 effect, a brain signature of semantic violations, in a live object naming paradigm in the presence of an adult observer. In Experiment 2, we induced false beliefs about the labeled objects in the adult observer to test whether infants keep track of the other person's comprehension. The results revealed that infants reacted to the semantic incongruity heard by the other as if they encountered it themselves: they exhibited an N400-like response, even though labels were congruous from their perspective. This finding demonstrates that infants track the linguistic understanding of social partners.
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