Thursday, June 25, 2009

Study Contradicts Conventional Wisdom that Perceptual Abilities Improve as We Grow


Filed under: Language acquisition

A study of Spanish- and English- learning infants provides evidence that our perceptual abilities do not improve as we get older, and that younger infants may actually be better at integrating facial speech gestures and vocalizations than older infants. The developmental decline in this ability may be due to increasing specialization for native-language phonology as infants learn their own speech and language.

Full article: Newswise


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Comment by Spanish School Mexico 07 Dec 2009 at 3:04 am

As somebody in the education field (specific language education) this study is very interesting. Who knows what this could imply as to childhood and adult education techniques.


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