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ArticleCognition2024

The link between non-human primate vocalizations and cognition is not constrained by maturation alone: Evidence from healthy preterm infants.

Kali Woodruff Carr, Sandra R Waxman

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Kali Woodruff CarrDivision of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: kali.woodruffcarr@gmail.com.
Sandra R WaxmanDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

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Linking language and cognition in infancy: Entry points and developmental changeR01HD083310 · NICHD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI WAXMAN, SANDRA R · 2015 to 2019
$2.7M
Northwestern University Mental Health, Earlier: Transdiagnostic, Transdisciplinary, Translational Training Program in Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms of PsychopathologyT32MH126368 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SHANKMAN, STEWART AARON, WAKSCHLAG, LAUREN S · 2021 to 2025
$1.4M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD083310NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH126368
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Abstract

To acquire language, infants must not only identify the signals of their language(s), but also discover how these signals are connected to meaning. By 3 months of age, infants' native language, non-native languages, and vocalizations of non-human primates support infants' formation of object categories-a building block of cognition. But by 6 months, only the native language exerts this cognitive advantage. Prior work with preterm infants indicates that maturation constrains this developing link between the native language and cognition. Here, we assess whether maturation exerts similar constraints on the influence of non-human primate vocalizations on infant categorization. Cross-sectional growth curve analyses of new data from preterm infants and extant data from fullterm infants indicate that developmental tuning of this signal's influence on categorization is best predicted by infants' chronological age, and not gestational status. This evidence, together with prior work, suggests that as infants tune the initially broad set of signals that support early cognition, they are guided by two independent processes: maturation constrains the expression of a link between their native language and cognition, while the influence of non-linguistic signals are guided by other factors, such as postnatal age and experience.

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CognitionInfant, PrematureVocalization, AnimalAnimalsChild DevelopmentCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornLanguage DevelopmentMaleConceptual developmentDevelopmental tuningNon-human primate vocalizationsObject categorizationPreterm infants

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PMID39029362
PMCPMC11370052

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