Do measures of infant habituation organization predict childhood vocabulary and IQ scores?

Willatts, Peter; Forsyth, Stewart; DiModugno, M K; Rosie, Karen

doi:10.1016/s0163-6383(98)91973-7

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“…The precise functional significance of these behavioural signatures is still unknown, but whether they reflect a general intelligence factor (g) (Fagan, 1984) or multiple factors such as speed of processing and memory (Rose & Feldman, 1997), habituation measures have been found to better predict future cognitive skills than other developmental tests (Bornstein & Sigman, 1986;Fagan & McGrath, 1981). Interestingly, a number of studies have found that habituation measures are significantly associated with verbal ability, especially vocabulary (Bornstein, 1985;Kavšek, 2004;Miller et al, 1979;Willatts, Forsyth, DiModugno, & Rosie, 1998).…”

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Visual Event-Related Potentials to Novel Objects Predict Rapid Word Learning Ability in 20-Month-Olds

Borgström

Torkildsen

Lindgren

2016

Developmental Neuropsychology

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In an event-related potentials (ERP) study, twenty-month-old children (n = 37) were presented with pseudowords to map to novel object referents in five presentations. Quicker attenuation of the visual Negative central component (Nc) to novel objects predicted a larger difference in N400 amplitude between congruous and incongruous presentations of pseudowords at test. Furthermore, better initial recognition of familiar objects (Nc difference between familiar and novel objects) predicted the strength of the N400 incongruity effect to the verbal labels of these real objects. This study presents novel evidence for a link between efficient visual processing of objects and word learning ability.

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