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| P K KuhlSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Acoustic analysis of lexical tone in Mandarin infant-directed speechHuei Mei Liu
Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Dev Psychol 43:912-7. 2007....
A new view of language acquisitionP K Kuhl
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357920, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97:11850-7. 2000..Infants' strategies are unexpected and unpredicted by historical views. A new theoretical position has emerged, and six postulates of this position are described...- Infant magnetoencephalography studies exploring neural links between sensory and motor representations for speechPatricia K Kuhl
Univ of Washington, Inst for Learning and Brain Sci, Mailstop 357920, Seattle, WA 98195 7920
J Acoust Soc Am 125:2769. 2009..Our results elucidate the developmental time course of the sensory-motor connections for speech, and address longstanding theoretical issues in speech perception... 
Neural substrates of language acquisitionPatricia Kuhl
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Annu Rev Neurosci 31:511-34. 2008..Developmental neuroscience studies using language are beginning to answer questions about the origins of humans' language faculty...- Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e)Patricia K Kuhl
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:979-1000. 2008..NLM-e incorporates five new principles. Specific testable predictions for future research programmes are described... - Is speech learning 'gated' by the social brain?Patricia K Kuhl
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Dev Sci 10:110-20. 2007..Relating human language learning to a broader set of neurobiological cases of communicative development, I argue that the social brain 'gates' the computational mechanisms involved in human language learning... - Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 monthsPatricia K Kuhl
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington 98195, USA
Dev Sci 9:F13-F21. 2006..We argue that neural commitment to native-language phonetic properties explains the pattern of developmental change in the first year... - Early language acquisition: cracking the speech codePatricia K Kuhl
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 5:831-43. 2004..Successful learning by infants, as well as constraints on that learning, are changing theories of language acquisition... - Brain mechanisms in early language acquisitionPatricia K Kuhl
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Neuron 67:713-27. 2010..Neuroscience on early language learning is beginning to reveal the multiple brain systems that underlie the human language faculty... - Language/culture/mind/brain. Progress at the margins between disciplinesP K Kuhl
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, and Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 935:136-74. 2001..Although a consilient view cannot yet be offered, the cross-disciplinary interaction now seen among scientists pursuing one of humans' greatest achievements, language, is quite promising... - Foreign-language experience in infancy: effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learningPatricia K Kuhl
Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, and Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Mailstop 357920, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:9096-101. 2003..Between 9 and 10 mo of age, infants show phonetic learning from live, but not prerecorded, exposure to a foreign language, suggesting a learning process that does not require long-term listening and is enhanced by social interaction... - Human speech and birdsong: communication and the social brainPatricia K Kuhl
Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Mailstop 357920, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:9645-6. 2003 - Brain potentials to native and non-native speech contrasts in 7- and 11-month-old American infantsMaritza Rivera-Gaxiola
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Dev Sci 8:162-72. 2005..We describe distinct neural patterns in two groups of infants and suggest that their developmental differences may have an impact on language development... - Grammatical processing without semantics? An event-related brain potential study of preschoolers using jabberwocky sentencesJuan Silva-Pereyra
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7988, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 19:1050-65. 2007..However, when preschoolers process jabberwocky sentences with altered lexical-semantic content, a negative-going ERP component similar to one typically associated with the extraction of meaning is noted... - Infant speech perception activates Broca's area: a developmental magnetoencephalography studyToshiaki Imada
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Neuroreport 17:957-62. 2006..The activation patterns observed in the superior temporal and inferior frontal regions provide initial evidence for the developmental emergence early in life of a perceptual-motor link for speech perception that may depend on experience... - An event-related brain potential study of sentence comprehension in preschoolers: semantic and morphosyntactic processingJuan Silva-Pereyra
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences I LABS, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7988, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23:247-58. 2005..It is possible that the ERP effects here reported are analogous to those elicited in adults by the same type of stimuli, although differences in topography are evident... - Foundations for a new science of learningAndrew N Meltzoff
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Science 325:284-8. 2009..Machine learning algorithms are being developed that allow robots and computers to learn autonomously. New insights from many different fields are converging to create a new science of learning that may transform educational practices... - Cognitive control factors in speech perception at 11 monthsBarbara T Conboy
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98103, USA
Dev Psychol 44:1505-12. 2008.... - Socioeconomic status predicts hemispheric specialisation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in young childrenRajeev D S Raizada
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357988, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Neuroimage 40:1392-401. 2008..Collectively, these findings suggest that the weaker language skills of low-SES children are related to reduced underlying neural specialisation, and that these neural problems go beyond what is revealed by behavioural tests alone... - Neural patterns to speech and vocabulary growth in American infantsMaritza Rivera-Gaxiola
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Neuroreport 16:495-8. 2005..Infants were followed up longitudinally at 18, 22, 25, 27 and 30 months for word production. The infant speech discriminatory P150-250 and N250-550 are different components with different implications for later language development... - Links between social and linguistic processing of speech in preschool children with autism: behavioral and electrophysiological measuresPatricia K Kuhl
Center on Human Development and Disabilities and Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Dev Sci 8:F1-F12. 2005..The data support the hypothesis of an association between social and linguistic processing in children with ASD... - Sentence processing in 30-month-old children: an event-related potential studyJuan F Silva Pereyra
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7988, USA
Neuroreport 16:645-8. 2005..Our findings replicate the event-related potential patterns previously observed in young children and indicate that the neural signatures of sentence processing can be observed at an early point in development... - Effects of language experience: neural commitment to language-specific auditory patternsYang Zhang
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357988, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Neuroimage 26:703-20. 2005.... - Sing that tune: infants' perception of melody and lyrics and the facilitation of phonetic recognition in songsGina C Lebedeva
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7988, USA
Infant Behav Dev 33:419-30. 2010..Findings are discussed in terms of how stimulus complexity interacts with the perception of sung speech in infancy... - Speech perception in infancy predicts language development in the second year of life: a longitudinal studyFeng Ming Tsao
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, USA
Child Dev 75:1067-84. 2004..The finding that speech perception performance at 6 months predicts language at 2 years supports the idea that phonetic perception may play an important role in language acquisition... - Clarifying the associations between language and social development in autism: a study of non-native phoneme recognitionJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8134, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 37:1256-63. 2007..Although earlier in autistic development there may exist qualitative deficits in this specific aspect of AIP, they are not an enduring characteristic of verbal school-aged children with ASD... - Perception of native and non-native affricate-fricative contrasts: cross-language tests on adults and infantsFeng Ming Tsao
Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106 Taiwan, Republic of China
J Acoust Soc Am 120:2285-94. 2006..The results add to our knowledge of the developmental patterns of native and non-native phonetic perception... - A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemesPaul Iverson
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK
Cognition 87:B47-57. 2003..The results show how language-specific perceptual processing can alter the relative salience of within- and between-category acoustic variation, and thereby interfere with second language acquisition... - The effect of reduced vowel working space on speech intelligibility in Mandarin-speaking young adults with cerebral palsyHuei Mei Liu
Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan 98195
J Acoust Soc Am 117:3879-89. 2005..The results of the perceptual experiment support this prediction. The distorted vowels of talkers with cerebral palsy compose a smaller acoustic space that results in shrunken intervowel perceptual distances for listeners...
Research Grants
- DEVELOPMENTAL SPEECH PERCEPTION AND BRAIN PLASTICITYPatricia Kuhl; Fiscal Year: 2003..The four converging lines of research should produce data that not only address specific theories of speech and language development, but more general theories of the interface between biology and culture. ..
- Development of Speech Perception and Brain PlasticityPatricia Kuhl; Fiscal Year: 2007..The research will produce data that address theories of speech and language development and more general theories of the interface between biology and culture. ..
- Development of Speech Perception and Brain PlasticityPatricia Kuhl; Fiscal Year: 2009..The research will produce data that address theories of speech and language development and more general theories of the interface between biology and culture. ..
- Development of Speech Perception and Brain PlasticityPatricia K Kuhl; Fiscal Year: 2010..The research will produce data that address theories of speech and language development and more general theories of the interface between biology and culture. ..
- Development of Speech Perception and Brain PlasticityPatricia K Kuhl; Fiscal Year: 2010..The research will produce data that address theories of speech and language development and more general theories of the interface between biology and culture. ..