Infant Visual Attention in the Paired-Comparison Paradigm: Test-Retest and Attention-Performance Relations

Colombo, John; Mitchell, Denis; Horowitz, Frances Degen

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“…In this sample, they estimated correlations with IQ at 3 years of age to vary between .37 and .63 depending on the number of tasks included. Similarly, Colombo, Mitchell, and Horowitz (1988) inspected various aspects of visual attention in over 60 infants, tested several times at either about 4 or 7 months. They concluded that some aspects of visual attention (specifically, shift rate) were reliable individual features at one age tested (7 months), but not at the other one (4 months).…”

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“…This approach has yet to be used in infant speech perception, where participants perform either a single task (e.g., the prosody studies) or multiple tasks thought to be fundamentally different (e.g., processing native vs. nonnative sounds). The example from Colombo et al (1988) discussed earlier is worth bringing up in this context, as it illustrates how development may interfere with long-term stability. This is particularly relevant for language, as infants continue to master their native language as a function of exposure (Table 2).…”

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Predicting Individual Variation in Language From Infant Speech Perception Measures

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There are increasing reports that individual variation in behavioral and neurophysiological measures of infant speech processing predicts later language outcomes, and specifically concurrent or subsequent vocabulary size. If such findings are held up under scrutiny, they could both illuminate theoretical models of language development and contribute to the prediction of communicative disorders. A qualitative, systematic review of this emergent literature illustrated the variety of approaches that have been used and highlighted some conceptual problems regarding the measurements. A quantitative analysis of the same data established that the bivariate relation was significant, with correlations of similar strength to those found for well-established nonlinguistic predictors of language. Further exploration of infant speech perception predictors, particularly from a methodological perspective, is recommended.Research over the past five decades demonstrates that infants tune their speech perception abilities to language-specific properties of the speech they hear before their first birthday (for a recent review, see Werker & Gervain, 2013). Although most of this past work has sought to pinpoint milestones by using group averages, increasing attention is being paid to correlations between behavioral and neurophysiological measures gathered within the 1st year of life, on the one hand, and individual differences in language development, on the other (e.g., see the collection in Colombo, McCardle, & Freund, 2008;. The study of individual variation in infancy is far from new. For example, habituation and dishabituation measures have been used to assess the fit of different models of the architecture of cognitive skills (e.g., Bornstein, 1998) and to predict language, IQ, and educational outcomes longitudinally, even after several other variables have been controlled for (e.g., Bornstein et al., 2006; see also the Discussion section). Here, we discuss the potential of infant speech processing measures to predict variation in language outcomes over this backdrop of the larger field of cognitive development.Evaluating this emergent strand of research is important for two reasons. First, from a theoretical perspective, focusing on individual differences in speech perception may provide crucial insights into the relative merit of competing theoretical models. For instance, there are two large classes of theories bearing on the emergence of phonology in the 1st year of life (see review in R€ as€ anen, 2012). According to one, infants begin to learn phonology by determining which speech sound categories (which we call phones) their ambient language uses, and they later employ these units to build word formsWe are grateful to our colleagues at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, and at both the Psychology of Language and the Genetics of Language Departments at the MPI for insightful discussions. We thank particularly the reviewers for their extremely constructive comments. Some of this work was done wi...

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“…Moderate test-retest reliabilities have been reported for composites such as these over periods of one week, r = .40 and .51 (Colombo, Mitchell, & Horowitz, 1988;Rose & Feldman, 1987;Rose, Feldman, & Wallace, 1988) Recall Memory-Recall memory was assessed with two tasks, elicited imitation and symbolic play. In elicited imitation, the examiner modeled each of three event sequences (e.g., place small block on paddle, cover block, shake paddle to create rattle sound) three times in succession; after a 15-min delay, the infant was given the props for each sequence, in turn, to reproduce the sequences (Bauer, 2002;Bauer, Van Abbema, & de Haan, 1999;Bauer, Wiebe, Carver, Waters, & Nelson, 2003).…”

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A cognitive cascade in infancy: Pathways from prematurity to later mental development

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Using data from a longitudinal study of preterms and full-terms, the present study examined the structure of infant cognition at 12 months, the extent to which five 12-month abilities (attention, speed, recognition, recall, and representational competence) mediated the relation from prematurity to mental development at 2 -3 years, and how continuity and change in infant information processing from 7 to 12 months affected later outcome. The results indicated that 12-month measures of infant information processing completely mediated the effect of prematurity on outcome and the infant measures form a 'cognitive cascade,' similar to that seen at 7 months, in which the two more elementary abilities (attention and speed) influenced the more complex ones, which in turn influenced later cognition. Additionally, despite cross-age stability, 7-month assessments contribute to outcome independently of their 12-month counterparts, suggesting that infant abilities undergo important developmental transformations in the second half of the first year of life.

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“…When tested on the VPC task, the length of familiarization phase required for infants to exhibit novelty preferences decreases as a function of age (see Rose et al, 1982), so much so that researchers working with different age groups often use infant-controlled familiarization procedures (Diamond, 1995;Pascalis, de Haan, Nelson, & de Schonen, 1998), or design studies allowing younger infants longer familiarization times than older infants (Colombo, Mitchell, & Horowitz, 1988;Jacobs, 2000;Rose, Feldman, & Jankowski, 2001). Similarly, when tested on a deferred imitation task, 6-month olds require a demonstration period that is twice the length of that used with 12-month-old infants, in order to exhibit equivalent imitation performance after a delay (Barr, Dowden, & Hayne, 1996).…”

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Accounting for change in declarative memory: A cognitive neuroscience perspective

Richmond

Nelson

2007

Developmental Review

152

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The medial temporal lobe memory system matures relatively early and supports rudimentary declarative memory in young infants. There is considerable development, however, in the memory processes that underlie declarative memory performance during infancy. Here we consider agerelated changes in encoding, retention, and retrieval in the context of current knowledge about the brain systems that may underlie these memory processes. While changes in infants' encoding may be attributed to rapid myelination during the first year of life, improvements in long-term retention and flexible retrieval are likely due to the prolonged development of the dentate gyrus. Future studies combining measures of brain and behavior are critical in improving our understanding of how brain development drives memory development during infancy and early childhood.

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Infant Visual Attention in the Paired-Comparison Paradigm: Test-Retest and Attention-Performance Relations

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Predicting Individual Variation in Language From Infant Speech Perception Measures

Predicting Individual Variation in Language From Infant Speech Perception Measures

A cognitive cascade in infancy: Pathways from prematurity to later mental development

Accounting for change in declarative memory: A cognitive neuroscience perspective

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