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SUBMITTER: Forgacs B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6492012 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Forgács Bálint B Parise Eugenio E Csibra Gergely G Gergely György G Jacquey Lisa L Gervain Judit J
Developmental science 20181010 2
Infants employ sophisticated mechanisms to acquire their first language, including some that rely on taking the perspective of adults as speakers or listeners. When do infants first show awareness of what other people understand? We tested 14-month-old infants in two experiments measuring event-related potentials. In Experiment 1, we established that infants produce the N400 effect, a brain signature of semantic violations, in a live object naming paradigm in the presence of an adult observer. I ...[more]