Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy Export

@article{citeulike:1326199, abstract = {This study shows that 4- and 6-month-old infants can discriminate languages (English from French) just from viewing silently presented articulations. By the age of 8 months, only bilingual (French-English) infants succeed at this task. These findings reveal a surprisingly early preparedness for visual language discrimination and highlight infants' selectivity for retaining only necessary perceptual sensitivities. 10.1126/science.1137686}, author = {Weikum, Whitney M. and Vouloumanos, Athena and Navarra, Jordi and Soto-Faraco, Salvador and Sebastian-Galles, Nuria and Werker, Janet F.}, citeulike-article-id = {1326199}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1137686}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/316/5828/1159}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17525331}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17525331}, day = {25}, doi = {10.1126/science.1137686}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {language}, month = {May}, number = {5828}, pages = {1159+}, posted-at = {2007-05-28 04:35:53}, priority = {2}, title = {Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1137686}, volume = {316}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1326199 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1326199 N2 - This study shows that 4- and 6-month-old infants can discriminate languages (English from French) just from viewing silently presented articulations. By the age of 8 months, only bilingual (French-English) infants succeed at this task. These findings reveal a surprisingly early preparedness for visual language discrimination and highlight infants' selectivity for retaining only necessary perceptual sensitivities. 10.1126/science.1137686 IS - 5828 JF - Science TI - Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy VL - 316 SP - 1159 KW - language AU - Weikum, Whitney AU - Vouloumanos, Athena AU - Navarra, Jordi AU - Soto-Faraco, Salvador AU - Sebastian-Galles, Nuria AU - Werker, Janet PY - 2007/05/25/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1137686 ER -