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From the very beginning infants are aware of their surrounding environment. Since the auditory system is one of the first sensory systems to develop, newborns can already absorb a wealth of information from their auditory environment. They exhibit both behavioral and neurophysiological responses to a variety of external sounds, such as pure tones, sounds at different acoustic frequencies, and speech.
The goal of this symposium is to update the audience on current knowledge concerning newborns’ auditory perceptual expertise and on how they cope with the rich surrounding auditory environment soon after birth. We aim to address not only the development and timing of organized auditory sensory skills like voice and speech processing, multisensory integration, and numerical cognition, but also the mechanisms that drive their emergence.
The first part of the symposium will focus on the factors influencing voice processing in newborns (Silvestri) and speech processing in infants (Polver). Next, we will tackle the effects of prenatal auditory learning on subsequent abilities at birth (Castellani). The discussion will continue with a series of studies investigating how information from different senses is constantly integrated, highlighting early signatures of audio-tactile body-related multisensory integration (Rossi Sebastiano) and audio-visual numerical information (Eccher) in the newborn’s brain.
Together, this symposium will represent an attempt to address open questions regarding the integration of different auditory processes and to foster a discussion on the early abilities and skills in the first months of life as well as the role of auditory experiences both before and after birth.
| If you're submitting a symposium talk, what's the symposium title? | The ontogenetic necessity to extract information from the auditory environment |
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| If you're submitting a symposium, or a talk that is part of a symposium, is this a junior symposium? | Yes |
