TY - JOUR
T1 - Neural correlates of infant accent discrimination
T2 - An fNIRS study
AU - Cristia, Alejandrina
AU - Minagawa-Kawai, Yasuyo
AU - Egorova, Natalia
AU - Gervain, Judit
AU - Filippin, Luca
AU - Cabrol, Dominique
AU - Dupoux, Emmanuel
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - The present study investigated the neural correlates of infant discrimination of very similar linguistic varieties (Quebecois and Parisian French) using functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy. In line with previous behavioral and electrophysiological data, there was no evidence that 3-month-olds discriminated the two regional accents, whereas 5-month-olds did, with the locus of discrimination in left anterior perisylvian regions. These neuroimaging results suggest that a developing language network relying crucially on left perisylvian cortices sustains infants' discrimination of similar linguistic varieties within this early period of infancy.
AB - The present study investigated the neural correlates of infant discrimination of very similar linguistic varieties (Quebecois and Parisian French) using functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy. In line with previous behavioral and electrophysiological data, there was no evidence that 3-month-olds discriminated the two regional accents, whereas 5-month-olds did, with the locus of discrimination in left anterior perisylvian regions. These neuroimaging results suggest that a developing language network relying crucially on left perisylvian cortices sustains infants' discrimination of similar linguistic varieties within this early period of infancy.
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U2 - 10.1111/desc.12160
DO - 10.1111/desc.12160
M3 - Article
C2 - 24628942
AN - SCOPUS:84904722187
SN - 1363-755X
VL - 17
SP - 628
EP - 635
JO - Developmental Science
JF - Developmental Science
IS - 4
ER -