2018
Expectation affects neural repetition suppression in infancy
Emberson LL, Boldin AM, Robertson CE, Cannon G, Aslin RN. Expectation affects neural repetition suppression in infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2018, 37: 100597. PMID: 30473471, PMCID: PMC6918478, DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.11.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInfants' neural responsesRepetition suppressionNeural responsesInfant brainNeural repetition suppressionAuditory repetition suppressionControl conditionSame stimulus resultsPredictive processingAuditory stimuliStimulus presentationNeural activationNeural phenomenaPredictive codingStimuli resultsStimuliRecent workFNIRSExpectationsContextBrainParadigmRepetitionProcessingInfancy
2016
Using fNIRS to examine occipital and temporal responses to stimulus repetition in young infants: Evidence of selective frontal cortex involvement
Emberson LL, Cannon G, Palmeri H, Richards JE, Aslin RN. Using fNIRS to examine occipital and temporal responses to stimulus repetition in young infants: Evidence of selective frontal cortex involvement. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2016, 23: 26-38. PMID: 28012401, PMCID: PMC5253300, DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2016.11.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRepetition suppressionPerceptual corticesAuditory repetition suppressionFrontal cortexAuditory stimuliStimulus repetitionExperiment 1Experiment 2Cortex involvementInfant brainTemporal cortexFrontal lobeAdult brainYoung infantsCortexRepetitionRecent experienceBrainFNIRSExperienceStimuliFirst evidenceSuggestive evidenceInfantsEvidence
2005
Infants are sensitive to within-category variation in speech perception
McMurray B, Aslin R. Infants are sensitive to within-category variation in speech perception. Cognition 2005, 95: b15-b26. PMID: 15694642, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.005.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSpeech perceptionCategory variationHead-turn preference procedureRepetition of wordsPhonetic categoriesInfants' sensitivityPreference procedureCategory detailPrevious researchPerceptionSame categoryAdultsSystematic sensitivityPhonemesListenersTokensConsonantsSpeechRecent evidenceVOTWordsInfantsRecent workRepetitionCategories