Neuro201 # 1 Infants' abilities

Do infants recognize their mother's voice at birth

• Yes

• No

Do French infants differentiate between English and Japanese sentences at birth?

• YES

• NO

Do French infants differentiate between English and Dutch sentences at birth?

• YES

• NO

Infants start to better discriminate their native consonant contrasts compared to non-native contrasts at:

• 3-6 months

• 8-10 months

• 12-14 months

• 16-18 months

The proportion of infants/children exposed to at least 2 languages in their environment (at home and outside) represents:

• 10%

• 30%

• 50%

• 70%

What is the main "behavioral response" we can record from infants to know what they perceive in speech sounds?

• their look

• their verbal response

• their movement toward objects

• their cry

We can record infants' brain responses to speech sounds

• right

• wrong

At what age infants can recognize a single word heard in previous sentences?

• 3 months

• 6 months

• 9 months

• 12 months

Studying infants' abilities to perceive speech sounds is:

• a step forward understanding human cognition

• not interesting, I don't like kids

• cute, I very much like kids

• cannot answer