PSY 30312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Coarticulation, Phonological Awareness, Cognitive Disorder
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A perceptual map forms that represents similarities among sounds and helps the infant to learn to discriminate between different phonemes. Maps form quickly and vary 6 month old children of english speaking parents already have auditory maps different from infants in non-english speaking homes. By their first birthday = maps are complete and infants are less able to discriminate sounds that are not important to their own language. Reason why it is so difficult to learn a second language after already learned a first = perceptual maps are already completed. Brain connections are already wired for english. Similar cortical maps are formed for other highly refined skills a young child who learns to play a musical instrument may strengthen the neural circuits that underlie music and verbal memory. Children who are slow and inaccurate at decoding have the most difficulties in reading comprehension. Core deficits in phonological awareness in readers leads to difficulties in:
