Neurological Development Flashcards
Most linguists agree that there is a what for human language?
Biological foundation
Biology alone is not sufficient to explain the process of language development. _____ plays a significant role, with _____ changes in infants being crucial for language development.
Brain maturation; physiological
When do the development of brain starts?
Within eighteen days of conception and continues for many years after birth.
What is the slowest organ to mature?
Brain
What age do the motor cortex in the frontal lobe becomes more active? This allows the child to gain more control over voluntary motor actions and reducing reflexive behaviours.
2 months
What age does the visual cortex becomes more active? It enables the child to focus on objects both near and far.
3 months
After 3 months, what happens next?
Activation of the limbic system, seat of emotion and memory.
What happens last?
The cerebral cortex where higher thinking resides is last.
What are the 4 Early Cognitive Development?
- Sensation
- Perception
- Motor Control
- Cognition
It is the ability to register sensory information.
Sensation
What is the first sense to develop in utero?
Touch
Sensation spreads to the entire body by what week of fetal development?
Week fourteen
When are pain receptors formed?
26th week
The fetus is sensitive to sounds early, startling to both sounds and movements at what week?
8th week
The inner ear is formed by what week? Fetal hearing is functional at this point.
20 weeks postconception
Fetuses can sense … and … tastes in amniotic fluid.
Sweet and noxious
This sense must also be activated in utero.
Sense of smell
Limited attending abilities affect these abilities?
Discrimination and perception abilities
At what age do infants exhibit selective attending skills?
2 months
When presented with stimulus repeatedly an infant will react less as they are used to stimulus, it is exhibited in both vision and audition (hearing). What is it called?
Habituation
It is the process of using sensory information and prior knowledge to gather and to make sense of stimuli registered by senses.
Perception
It involves the ability to discriminate differences in incoming formation, it is a portion of that. It is a process of gaining awareness of what is happening around us.
Perception
A newborn can discriminate between different s… duration and l… levels, different p…, and c…
Newborns are capable of discrimianting different p… or f…, especially in the human speech range.
sound durations; loudness levels; phonemes; consonants
pitches; frequences
In this month, infants prefer an “average” face, probably because it matches an internalized concept of a face.
2 months
In this month, infants can perceive facial differences.
3 months
In these months, infants begin to perceive their own face but they don’t understand exactly who is that vision in the mirror.
5 and 8 months