Well finally came to an end the holiday and it's time to get to work with great enthusiasm. For me one of the nicest aspects of the holiday is to catch up - or at least try to catch up "in local movie listings. Now on holiday came third in the trilogy of films that began with "my girlfriend's family" with Robert de Niro and Ben Stiller. To enjoy it fully, so I decided to rent the DVD of the second part, "The My husband's family. " A fun aspect of this movie is the plot in which Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) seeks to educate her grandchild as if it were a adultito, and forbids anyone you talk to the tone or the honeyed words that we often hear or do when we go to small infants.
Well, all this is irrelevant because just in this year's first issue of the journal Cerebral Cortex, Katherine Travis, and his colleagues at the University of Califonia at San Diego published an article suggesting that infants between 12 and 18 months of age and processed language as it does adults.
In reaching this conclusion, the authors used the technique of magnetoencephalography in combination with structural magnetic resonance imaging. This allowed them to estimate the spatio-temporal brain activity selective for words in children between 12 and 18 months of age. The task was to bring them to see pictures of common objects and to hear words that they understood. A subset of these infants also heard familiar words compared with sounds. In both experiments, the words evoked the typical event-related brain responses that occur when listening to words, and displayed to 400 milliseconds after word began. In adults this activity called N400 is associated with lexical-semantic encoding and is located in the left hemisphere frontotemporal cortices. As in adults, the authors found that the amplitude of the N400 is also modulated by prior exposure semantics, known as priming, and is reduced by words that are preceded by a semantically related picture. These findings suggest that both children and adults use the frontotemporal areas left You to encode lexical-semantic information.
This suggests that after all there is some truth to the claims of Robert de Niro in the role of Jack Byrnes in saying that her grandson in the movie means more than it seems, however, as mentioned in other blogs , loving approach to infants brings emotional information that goes beyond simple semantic meaning of words, so we do not have to feel bad when we stammer borucas front of a boy or girl who actually seems to enjoy our foolishness.
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