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Infancy | 2009

Prosodic Structure in Early Word Segmentation: ERP Evidence From Dutch Ten-Month-Olds

Valesca Kooijman; Peter Hagoort; Anne Cutler

Recognizing word boundaries in continuous speech requires detailed knowledge of the native language. In the first year of life, infants acquire considerable word segmentation abilities. Infants at this early stage in word segmentation rely to a large extent on the metrical pattern of their native language, at least in stress-based languages. In Dutch and English (both languages with a preferred trochaic stress pattern), segmentation of strong-weak words develops rapidly between 7 and 10 months of age. Nevertheless, trochaic languages contain not only strong-weak words but also words with a weak-strong stress pattern. In this article, we present electrophysiological evidence of the beginnings of weak-strong word segmentation in Dutch 10-month-olds. At this age, the ability to combine different cues for efficient word segmentation does not yet seem to be completely developed. We provide evidence that Dutch infants still largely rely on strong syllables, even for the segmentation of weak-strong words.


Frontiers in Psychology | 2013

Predictive brain signals of linguistic development

Valesca Kooijman; Caroline Junge; Elizabeth K. Johnson; Peter Hagoort; Anne Cutler

The ability to extract word forms from continuous speech is a prerequisite for constructing a vocabulary and emerges in the first year of life. Electrophysiological (ERP) studies of speech segmentation by 9- to 12-month-old listeners in several languages have found a left-localized negativity linked to word onset as a marker of word detection. We report an ERP study showing significant evidence of speech segmentation in Dutch-learning 7-month-olds. In contrast to the left-localized negative effect reported with older infants, the observed overall mean effect had a positive polarity. Inspection of individual results revealed two participant sub-groups: a majority showing a positive-going response, and a minority showing the left negativity observed in older age groups. We retested participants at age three, on vocabulary comprehension and word and sentence production. On every test, children who at 7 months had shown the negativity associated with segmentation of words from speech outperformed those who had produced positive-going brain responses to the same input. The earlier that infants show the left-localized brain responses typically indicating detection of words in speech, the better their early childhood language skills.


PLOS ONE | 2011

Effects of Visual Priming on Taste-Odor Interaction

Marije van Beilen; Harold Bult; Remco Renken; Markus Stieger; Stefan Thumfart; Frans W. Cornelissen; Valesca Kooijman

Little is known about the influence of visual characteristics other than colour on flavor perception, and the complex interactions between more than two sensory modalities. This study focused on the effects of recognizability of visual (texture) information on flavor perception of odorized sweet beverages. Participants rated the perceived sweetness of odorized sucrose solutions in the presence or absence of either a congruent or incongruent visual context. Odors were qualitatively reminiscent of sweet foods (strawberry and caramel) or not (savoury). Visual context was either an image of the same sweet foods (figurative context) or a visual texture derived from this product (non-figurative context). Textures were created using a texture synthesis method that preserved perceived food qualities while removing object information. Odor-taste combinations were rated sweeter within a figurative than a non-figurative context. This behaviour was exhibited for all odor-taste combinations, even in trials without images, indicating sustained priming by figurative visual context. A non-figurative context showed a transient sweetening effect. Sweetness was generally enhanced most by the strawberry odor. We conclude that the degree of recognizability of visual information (figurative versus non-figurative), influences flavor perception differently. Our results suggest that this visual context priming is mediated by separate sustained and transient processes that are differently evoked by figurative and non-figurative visual contexts. These components operate independent of the congruency of the image-odor-taste combinations.


Cognitive Brain Research | 2005

Electrophysiological evidence for prelinguistic infants' word recognition in continuous speech

Valesca Kooijman; Peter Hagoort; Anne Cutler


Developmental Science | 2012

Rapid recognition at 10 months as a predictor of language development

Caroline Junge; Valesca Kooijman; Peter Hagoort; Anne Cutler


Brain Research | 2007

Neurophysiological evidence of delayed segmentation in a foreign language

Tineke M. Snijders; Valesca Kooijman; Anne Cutler; Peter Hagoort


Early Language Development : Bridging Brain and Behaviour | 2008

Reflections on reflections of infant word recognition

Valesca Kooijman; Elizabeth K. Johnson; Anne Cutler


Franich, K.; Iserman, K.M.; Keil, L.L. [et al.] (ed.), Proceedings of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Vol. 1 | 2010

Brain potentials for word segmentation at seven months predict later language development

Caroline Junge; Peter Hagoort; Valesca Kooijman; Anne Cutler


Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 2004

Word segmentation from continuous speech: An ERP study with 10-month-old infants

Valesca Kooijman; Peter Hagoort; Anne Cutler


Chemosensory Perception | 2010

Editorial for the Special Food Summit 2008 Issue of Chemosensory Perception

Valesca Kooijman; Annette Stafleu; Markus Stieger; Robert Jan Hamer; John Prescott

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Markus Stieger

Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Marije van Beilen

University Medical Center Groningen

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Remco Renken

University Medical Center Groningen

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