I See What You Are Saying: Hearing Infants' Visual Attention and Social Engagement in Response to Spoken and Sign Language.

ABSTRACT: Infants are endowed with a proclivity to acquire language, whether it is presented in the auditory or visual modality. Moreover, in the first months of life, listening to language supports fundamental cognitive capacities, including infants' facility to form object categories (e.g., dogs and bottles). Recently, we have found that for English-acquiring infants as young as 4 months of age, this precocious interface between language and cognition is sufficiently broad to include not only their native spoken language (English), but also sign language (American Sign Language, ASL). In the current study, we take this work one step further, asking how "sign-naïve" infants-hearing infants with no prior exposure to sign language-deploy their attentional and social strategies in the context of episo

SUBMITTER: Novack MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9280667 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature