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Michel, Christine; Kaduk, Katharina; Ní Choisdealbha, Áine; Reid, Vincent M. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Previous event-related potential (ERP) work has indicated that the neural processing of action sequences develops with age. Although adults and 9-month-olds use a semantic processing system, perceiving actions activates attentional processes in 7-month-olds. However, presenting a sequence of action context, action execution and action conclusion…
Descriptors: Infants, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes
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Butler, Joseph; Floccia, Caroline; Goslin, Jeremy; Panneton, Robin – Infancy, 2011
This study investigates infants' discrimination abilities for familiar and unfamiliar regional English accents. Using a variation of the head-turn preference procedure, 5-month-old infants demonstrated that they were able to distinguish between their own South-West English accent and an unfamiliar Welsh English accent. However, this distinction…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, English, Dialects