Sentences with phrase «human speech acquisition»
Summary: In a finding with implications to human speech acquisition, University of Chicago researchers have shown how a bird's brain controls singing and demonstrated for the first time that structures higher up in the brain directly control the more abstract information, while the component bits are managed by lower brain centers.
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In the case of aphasic speech, for example, the body remains that «instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul» (AI 349), but the final artist merely lives off his previous acquisitions.
During more than two decades at Rockefeller, Peter Marler, a leader in the field, examined the interplay between the inborn program for song in young birds and the influence of social factors, uncovering parallels to speech acquisition in human babies.
«They help us to understand how the FOXP2 gene might have been important in the evolution of the human brain and direct us towards neural mechanisms that play a role in speech and language acquisition.»
In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain.
«It's interesting to human biology, because song learning in birds has compelling similarities to speech acquisition.»
Song acquisition is often used as a model system for how humans learn speech.
Dr. Katie Slocombe from the University of York's Department of Psychology, said: «A special speech register, known as infant - directed speech, is thought to aid language acquisition and improve the way a human baby bonds with an adult.
Infant - directed speech (IDS) is a special speech register thought to aid language acquisition and improve affiliation in human infants.