Study Contradicts Conventional Wisdom that Perceptual Abilities Improve as We Grow
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 07:42
in Psychology & Sociology
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.