TY - JOUR
T1 - Listen up! Speech is for thinking during infancy
AU - Vouloumanos, Athena
AU - Waxman, Sandra R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers R01HD072018 (A.V.) and R01HD30410 (S.R.W.), and National Science Foundation BCS 0950376 (S.R.W.).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Infants' exposure to human speech within the first year promotes more than speech processing and language acquisition: new developmental evidence suggests that listening to speech shapes infants' fundamental cognitive and social capacities. Speech streamlines infants' learning, promotes the formation of object categories, signals communicative partners, highlights information in social interactions, and offers insight into the minds of others. These results, which challenge the claim that for infants, speech offers no special cognitive advantages, suggest a new synthesis. Far earlier than researchers had imagined, an intimate and powerful connection between human speech and cognition guides infant development, advancing infants' acquisition of fundamental psychological processes.
AB - Infants' exposure to human speech within the first year promotes more than speech processing and language acquisition: new developmental evidence suggests that listening to speech shapes infants' fundamental cognitive and social capacities. Speech streamlines infants' learning, promotes the formation of object categories, signals communicative partners, highlights information in social interactions, and offers insight into the minds of others. These results, which challenge the claim that for infants, speech offers no special cognitive advantages, suggest a new synthesis. Far earlier than researchers had imagined, an intimate and powerful connection between human speech and cognition guides infant development, advancing infants' acquisition of fundamental psychological processes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2014.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2014.10.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25457376
AN - SCOPUS:84927176571
SN - 1364-6613
VL - 18
SP - 642
EP - 646
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
IS - 12
ER -