A5106665451- Language Development and Disorders
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Infant Health and Development
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Language and cultural evolution
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
- Melanoma and MAPK Pathways
University of Padua
2022-2025
University of Amsterdam
2023
Cognizant (United States)
2021
University of Massachusetts Boston
2014-2021
Boston University
2020
University of Rochester
2008-2014
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
2013
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
2000-2006
Aligarh Muslim University
1982
Human infants are predisposed to rapidly acquire their native language. The nature of these predispositions is poorly understood, but crucial our understanding how unpack speech input recover the fundamental word-like units, assign them referential roles, and rules that govern organization. Previous researchers have demonstrated role general distributional computations in prelinguistic infants’ parsing continuous speech. We extend findings more naturalistic conditions, find 6-mo-old can...
Human infants acquire language with notable ease compared to adults, but the neural basis of their remarkable brain plasticity for remains little understood. Applying a scaling analysis oscillations address this question, we show that newborns' electrophysiological activity exhibits increased long-range temporal correlations after stimulation speech, particularly in prenatally heard language, indicating early emergence specialization native language.
How do infants start learning the syntax of language they are exposed to? In this paper, we examine a plausible mechanism for acquisi- tion relative order heads and complements. We hypothesize that iambic-trochaic law determines physical realization main prominence within phonological phrases contain more than one word: if it is realized mainly through pitch intensity, in phrase stress- initial has complement-head structure, otherwise stress-final head-complement structure. show to be case...
The somatic marker hypothesis (SMH) represents a rich neuropsychological framework to study emotion-based decision-making. It originates from early brain lesion studies using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), which showed that adaptive decision-making relies on intact ventromedial prefrontal cortex for integration of so-called "hot" affective signals and rational "cold" perceptual cognitive computations. Subsequent over past 20 years have provided converging evidence reliability validity IGT in...
A shared understanding of terminology is essential for clear scientific communication and minimizing misconceptions. This particularly challenging in rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary domains that utilize functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), where researchers come from diverse backgrounds apply their expertise fields such as engineering, neuroscience, psychology. The fNIRS Glossary Project was established to develop a community-sourced glossary covering key terms, including...
Test-retest reliability-establishing that measurements remain consistent across multiple testing sessions-is critical to measuring, understanding, and predicting individual differences in infant language development. However, previous attempts establish measurement reliability speech perception tasks are limited, of frequently used measures is largely unknown. The current study investigated the test-retest infants' preference for infant-directed over adult-directed a large sample (N = 158)...
Learning can be context-dependent, with better outcomes under some circumstances than others. Adult functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have shown that learning vary as a function of participants' brain states-patterns intrinsic neural activity-prior to the task. Whether this is also case in young infants currently unknown. We report first near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study shows prior state-dependent language task 6.5-month-old infants. Babies whose connectivity was lower...
Significance A shared understanding of terminology is essential for clear scientific communication and minimizing misconceptions. This particularly challenging in rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary domains that utilize functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), where researchers come from diverse backgrounds apply their expertise fields such as engineering, neuroscience, psychology. Aim The fNIRS Glossary Project was established to develop a community-sourced glossary covering key...
Test-retest reliability --- establishing that measurements remain consistent across multiple testing sessions is critical to measuring, understanding, and predicting individual differences in infant language development. However, previous attempts establish measurement speech perception tasks are limited, of frequently-used measures largely unknown. The current study investigated the test-retest infants' preference for infant-directed over adult-directed a large sample (N=158) context...
Abstract Human infants acquire language with striking ease compared to adults, but the neural basis of their remarkable brain plasticity for remains little understood. Applying a scaling analysis oscillations first time address this question, we show that newborns’ electrophysiological activity exhibits increased long-range temporal correlations after stimulation speech, particularly in prenatally heard language, indicating early emergence specialization native language.
Abstract Background Non‐invasive, visual and auditory gamma (40 Hz) sensory stimulation demonstrates clearance of β‐amyloid plaques tau tangles, cognition improvement in preclinical AD models (Iaccarino, 2016, Martorell, 2019). A home‐use device (Cognito Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, MA) was developed to evoke oscillations humans. The long‐term safety feasibility this approach has not been previously evaluated subjects. Method Overture is a prospective 6‐month treatment study...