Inside the Infant Mind: A Predictive Processing Approach
Talk by Christopher Cox, PhD Student, LiCS and IMC
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Time
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IMC Meeting Room, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483, Room 312
Inside the Infant Mind:
A predictive processing approach to the mutual interaction between vocal exploration and speech processing during phonological development
Abstract
A central question in the study of human development concerns the nature of the processes that enable infants to discover the structure of their immediate environment. Infants at an early point in development have been shown to possess powerful statistical learning capacities that allow them to extract information and to form expectations about probabilistic outcomes. The majority of this research on infants’ speech processing abilities, however, treats infants as passive recipients of stimuli by using habituation and violation-of-expectation paradigms. This talk presents experimental evidence to suggest that infants’ vocal exploration exerts a systematic impact on their processing of the speech stream and outlines how a new methodology allows investigation of the mutual interaction between infants’ statistical learning capacities and vocal exploration during development.
About the speaker
Christopher Martin Mikkelsen Cox, PhD Student
School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics and