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Sleeping neonates track transitional probabilities in speech but only retain the first syllable of words
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In: ISSN: 2045-2322 ; EISSN: 2045-2322 ; Scientific Reports ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03620600 ; Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2022, 12 (1), pp.4391. ⟨10.1038/s41598-022-08411-w⟩ (2022)
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Sleeping neonates track transitional probabilities in speech but only retain the first syllable of words
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In: Sci Rep (2022)
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Extracting statistical regularities from the environment is a primary learning mechanism that might support language acquisition. While it has been shown that infants are sensitive to transition probabilities between syllables in speech, it is still not known what information they encode. Here we used electrophysiology to study how full-term neonates process an artificial language constructed by randomly concatenating four pseudo-words and what information they retain after a few minutes of exposure. Neural entrainment served as a marker of the regularities the brain was tracking during learning. Then in a post-learning phase, evoked-related potentials (ERP) to different triplets explored which information was retained. After two minutes of familiarization with the artificial language, neural entrainment at the word rate emerged, demonstrating rapid learning of the regularities. ERPs in the test phase significantly differed between triplets starting or not with the correct first syllables, but no difference was associated with subsequent violations in transition probabilities. Thus, our results revealed a two-step learning process: neonates segmented the stream based on its statistical regularities, but memory encoding targeted during the word recognition phase entangled the ordinal position of the syllables but was still incomplete at that age.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08411-w
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8924158/
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Orthogonal neural codes for speech in the infant brain
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In: ISSN: 0027-8424 ; EISSN: 1091-6490 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03349785 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , National Academy of Sciences, 2021, 118 (31), pp.e2020410118. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2020410118⟩ (2021)
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