Language Science Talks: How prenatal experience shapes speech perception​

June 19, 2019, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Suedfeld Lounge (room 2510) Douglas T. Kenny Building 2136 West Mall

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Language Sciences affiliate member and CNRS senior research scientist at the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception Dr. Judit Gervain will present this Language Science Talks event.

Abstract extract: The talk will examine the hypothesis that this prenatal experience with speech prosody might already shape how newborns perceive speech.

In a series of NIRS and EEG experiments, I will show that basic auditory mechanisms such as envelope tracking are immune to prenatal influence, while more language-specific mechanisms, such as prosodic grouping, are already modulated at birth.

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