Speech perception as a window for understanding plasticity and commitment in language systems of the brain.

By Janet F. Werker, R. C. Tees. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “First, narrowing is a relative phenomenon in that, as noted by Werker and Tees (2005), it represents a re-organization of perceptu- al sensitivity, not a loss of discriminability.”
Perceptual learning: 12-month-olds' discrimination of monkey faces. (2012, background): “According to Werker and Tees (2005), one possible reason that infants become more sensitive to phonological contrasts within their native language, and less sensitive to phonological contrasts outside their nonnative language, is to promote infants’ discrimination of meaningful phonological…”
Different regulation mechanisms for evolved critical periods in learning (2013, background): “Critical periods that have a beginning and end that is delayed in the event of lacking sensory stimuli are often termed instead sensitive periods [7], or even optimal periods [12], to emphasize the fact that these periods are flexible in regards to delayed sensory experiences.”
The Development of the Uncanny Valley in Infants (2011, background): “As noted earlier, one is perceptual learning and differentiation of increasingly finer stimulus features (Gibson, 1969; Gottlieb, 1991; Nelson, 2001; Thelen & Smith, 1994; Werner, 1973) and the other is perceptual narrowing (Lewkowicz & Ghazanfar, 2009; Scott et al., 2007; Werker & Tees, 2005).”
Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution (2017, background): “periods for learning, or even crucial sequences of such learning periods, or requirements for memes to be acquired in particular orders [14, 35, 50, 86].”
The Biological Implausibility of the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy & What It Means for the Study of Infancy (2011, background): “…social experience given findings from humans and non-humans showing that social experience plays a critical role in development in a myriad of ways (Gottlieb, 1991a, 1991b, 1997; Lewkowicz & Ghazanfar, 2009; Maurer, Mondloch, & Lewis, 2007; Michel & Tyler, 2005; Nelson, 2001; Werker & Tees, 2005).”
Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) (2008, background): “…critical period have long been associated and many language scientists have discussed the issue (Lenneberg 1967; Johnson & Newport 1989; Bialystok & Hakuta 1994; Flege et al. 1999; Weber-Fox & Neville 1999; Yeni-Komshian et al. 2000; Birdsong & Molis 2001; Newport et al. 2001; Werker & Tees 2005).”
A Domain-General Theory of the Development of Perceptual Discrimination (2007, background): “Currently, there is substantial evidence suggesting that this specialization occurs between 6 and 12 months of age and is dependent on perceptual exposure to native (as opposed to nonnative) phonemic contrasts ( Werker & Tees, 2005 ).”
Age of acquisition: its neural and computational mechanisms. (2007, background): “This loss of plasticity can be described in neural terms by what some researchers call " experience-dependent synaptic change " (Bates, 1999) or " experience-mediated changes " (Trainor, 2005; Werker & Tees, 2005).”
Distributional Phonetic Learning at 10 Months of Age. (2010, background): “Finally, the perceptual system would have to contend with a general age-related decline in plasticity (Werker & Tees, 2005).”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, neutral): “While this may be the case at some level of analysis, in the years following, animal model work has yielded increasingly sophisticated information about the number of different ways circuits can be kept open and closed (see Werker & Tees, 2005, for a review of some of these).”
How the Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Influence the Development of Brain Architecture (2010, neutral): “In the area of speech and language, the maturational hypothesis predicts that native language proficiency cannot be obtained when learning begins after puberty (Bruer, 2001; Werker & Tees, 2005).”
The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, background): “Sound Systems and How We Process Them Kuhl (1991; 2004) and Werker and Tees (2005) have exploited cross-linguistic differences in sound systems, showing that infants from 6 months of age are already “tuning” their acoustic space to the sound system of the language they are learning.”
Evolved Sensitive Periods in Learning (2013, methodology): “different levels of behavior, where one level affects performance of the level above - this way, a cascade of sensitive periods, as suggested by Werker and Tees (2006), may emerge as a solution to the problem.”
Infants deploy selective attention to the mouth of a talking face when learning speech (2012, background): “This is because the ability to perceive the attributes of nonnative speech declines as infants become experts in their native language and as their sensitivity to nonnative speech narrows (2, 23).”
Learning pitch patterns in lexical identification by native English-speaking adults (2007, background): “A substantial amount of recent research has expanded our understanding of how linguistic exposure early in life affects the tuning of perceptual systems for speech in adulthood (see Werker & Tees, 2005, for a review).”
Recognition of Amodal Language Identity Emerges in Infancy (2013, background): “In contrast, it has been found that older infants only perceive native audible-only and visible-only speech, faces, and amodal attributes of speech (Mattock & Burnham, 2006; Pascalis et al., 2002; Pons et al., 2009; Skoruppa et al., 2009; Weikum et al., 2007; Werker & Tees, 1984, 2005).”