At 6–9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns

By Elika Bergelson, Daniel Swingley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Unsupervised neural network models of the ventral visual stream (2020, background): “For human infants, object labels are provided by parents from birth onward, but the earliest evidence for comprehension of any labels is at roughly 6 to 9 mo of age (27), and comprehension of most common object labels is low for many months thereafter (28).”
The Relationship Between Infants’ Production Experience and Their Processing of Speech (2014, result): “Although unexpected, this result is not surprising since word comprehension, with situational support, begins well before first word use (Bergelson & Swingley, 2012).”
The Centrality of Language in Human Cognition (2016, background): “…support are quite difficult to evaluate both because it is not straightforward to measure what it means to have a concept (Casasanto & Lupyan, 2014) and because children become sensitive to aspects of word meanings far earlier than they start producing the words (Bergelson & Swingley, 2012).”
Cognitive Science in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner (2016, positive): “Even before that, they start acquiring the meaning of a small set of common words (e.g. Bergelson & Swingley, 2012).”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “In a widely cited study, Bergelson and Swingley (2012) reported that if highly familiar objects are used, infants as young as 6 months old show evidence of looking longer to matching than to nonmatching objects. This effect is particularly pronounced if familiar voices are used to produce the words ”
Real-world visual statistics and infants' first-learned object names (2017, background): “prowess of two-year-old children depends on processes and knowledge not available to one-yearold infants, yet these young infants have already begun learning object names [14-16].”
Nonverbal category knowledge limits the amount of information encoded in object representations: EEG evidence from 12-month-old infants (2021, background): “Data from preverbal infants could provide insight into the origins of categorical biases, but the available experimental work investigating infant object cognition has not systematically controlled for the contributions of infant lexical knowledge, shown to be operational as early as six to nine mon”