The "Perceptual Wedge Hypothesis" as the basis for bilingual babies' phonetic processing advantage: New insights from fNIRS brain imaging

Brain and Language

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 130-143

  Petitto, L A ^a   Berens, M S ^a,b   Kovelman, I ^c   Dubins, M H ^a   Jasinska, K ^a   Shalinsky, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Brain development; Broca's area, STG, LIFC; FNIRS; Infant phonetic processing; Language acquisition; Perceptual Wedge Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BABY; BEHAVIOR; BILINGUAL; BRAIN IMAGING; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MONOLINGUAL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PERCEPTUAL WEDGE HYPOTHESIS; PHONETIC PROCESSING; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84859777598     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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