ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Sensorimotor Contribution to Language Processing. Overusing the Pacifier during Infancy Set a Footprint on Abstract Words Processing
- Laura Barca
National Research Council - Claudia Mazzuca
University of Bologna - Anna M. Borghi
Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Abstract
The study explores whether early interferences at speech-motor system affect language acquisition, and linguistic processing later in life. School-age children with different history of pacifier use semantically categorized visually presented words. Children who overused the pacifier were slower in processing abstract stimuli, for which linguistic information is particularly relevant.
Language/Speech
