Prosodic grouping at birth

Abboub, Nawal; Nazzi, Thierry; Gervain, Judit

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2016.08.002

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“…Furthermore, the cluster‐based permutation analysis is a non‐parametric statistical test that provides a solution to the multiple comparisons problem for data collected simultaneously from multiple collection points close to each other in space (Maris & Oostenveld, ). This method has been previously used with fNIRS data to improve sensitivity to underlying activation (Abboub, Nazzi, & Gervain, ; Benavides‐Varela & Gervain, ; Ferry et al, ). Specifically to conduct the permutation analysis all possible sets of three triangulated nearest‐neighbouring channels (cluster candidates) along the fNIRS arrays (a total of 58 clusters) were identified.…”

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“…The data set was permuted (shuffled) randomly 1,000 times to generate a cluster probability curve of t‐ values for the cluster. N = 1,000 permutations was chosen based on previous fNIRS research groups using this method (Abboub et al, ; Benavides‐Varela & Gervain, ). Clusters were selected that exceeded a threshold of t = 5 (see Supplementary data).…”

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Habituation and novelty detection fNIRS brain responses in 5‐ and 8‐month‐old infants: The Gambia and UK

Lloyd‐Fox

Blasi

McCann

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Developmental Science

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The first 1,000 days of life are a critical window of vulnerability to exposure to socioeconomic and health challenges (i.e. poverty/undernutrition). The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) project has been established to deliver longitudinal measures of brain development from 0 to 24 months in UK and Gambian infants and to assess the impact of early adversity. Here results from the Habituation‐Novelty Detection (HaND) functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) task at 5 and 8 months are presented (N = 62 UK; N = 115 Gambia). In the UK cohort distinct patterns of habituation and recovery of response to novelty are seen, becoming more robust from 5 to 8 months of age. In The Gambia, an attenuated habituation response is evident: a larger number of trials are required before the response sufficiently suppresses relative to the response during the first presented trials. Furthermore, recovery of response to novelty is not evident at 5 or 8 months of age. As this longitudinal study continues in The Gambia, the parallel collection of socioeconomic, caregiving, health and nutrition data will allow us to stratify how individual trajectories of habituation and recovery of response to novelty associate with different risk factors and adaptive mechanisms in greater depth. Given the increasing interest in the use of neuroimaging methods within global neurocognitive developmental studies, this study provides a novel cross‐culturally appropriate paradigm for the study of brain responses associated with attention and learning mechanisms across early development.

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Habituation and novelty detection fNIRS brain responses in 5‐ and 8‐month‐old infants: The Gambia and UK

Lloyd‐Fox

Blasi

McCann

et al. 2019

Developmental Science

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“…Other work casts doubt upon this idea, however, showing that the coupling between duration‐based ITL perception and experience is not as clear as the above literature may claim (Abboub, Boll‐Avetisyan, et al., ; Trainor & Adams, ). An alternative possibility is that observed learnability of duration‐based patterns could be explained by the relative prominence of those cues in French (Delattre, ).…”

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“…These findings were echoed in a study examining newborns from French‐speaking mothers, where increased brain activation was found when hearing consistent ITL‐like groupings over inconsistent ones. However, this effect held only for duration, and not intensity, and mixed performance with pitch‐based groupings was observed depending on language exposure in the womb (Abboub, Boll‐Avetisyan, et al., ).…”

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“…Other studies have compared American English, French, and German speakers (Bhatara, Boll‐Avetisyan, Agus, Höhle, & Nazzi, ; Bhatara, Boll‐Avetisyan, Unger, Nazzi, & Höhle, ; Hay & Diehl, ), groups that have relatively similar exposure to Western musical forms, but whose languages are phonologically distinct when considering prosody at the phrasal and lexical levels. These phonological differences appear to affect auditory grouping: Although French‐ and German‐learning infants appear to perceive the ITL similarly (Abboub, Boll‐Avetisyan, et al., ), adults do not. That is, French speakers’ rhythmic grouping is seen to be less ITL‐like than German adult speakers, at least when stimuli are sufficiently complex (Bhatara et al., , ; Hay & Diehl, ).…”

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Learning a Phonological Contrast Modulates the Auditory Grouping of Rhythm

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Perceptual grouping is fundamental to many auditory processes. The Iambic-Trochaic Law (ITL) is a default grouping strategy, where rhythmic alternations of duration are perceived iambically (weak-strong), while alternations of intensity are perceived trochaically (strong-weak). Some argue that the ITL is experience dependent. For instance, French speakers follow the ITL, but not as consistently as German speakers. We hypothesized that learning about prosodic patterns, like word stress, modulates this rhythmic grouping. We tested this idea by training French adults on a German-like stress contrast. Individuals who showed better phonological learning had more ITL-like grouping, particularly over duration cues. In a non-phonological condition, French adults were trained using identical stimuli, but they learned to attend to acoustic variation that was not linguistic. Here, no learning effects were observed. Results thus suggest that phonological learning can modulate low-level auditory grouping phenomena, but it is constrained by the ability of individuals to learn from short-term training.

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The Role of Prenatal Experience and Basic Auditory Mechanisms in the Development of Language

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Gervain²

2021

Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology

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Prosodic grouping at birth

Cited by 106 publications

References 76 publications

Habituation and novelty detection fNIRS brain responses in 5‐ and 8‐month‐old infants: The Gambia and UK

Habituation and novelty detection fNIRS brain responses in 5‐ and 8‐month‐old infants: The Gambia and UK

Learning a Phonological Contrast Modulates the Auditory Grouping of Rhythm

The Role of Prenatal Experience and Basic Auditory Mechanisms in the Development of Language

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