AIP Sperimentale 2024, 30° Congresso annuale

Session

Symposia: The ontogenetic necessity to extract information from the auditory environment

Sep 23, 2024, 5:30 PM

Aula Magna Giavanti

Conveners

Symposia: The ontogenetic necessity to extract information from the auditory environment

• Valentina Silvestri (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

36. Prosodic and linguistic cues from voices: which holds greater attention from newborns?

Valentina Silvestri (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

9/23/24, 5:30 PM

Talk in simposio

Voices are arguably the most relevant auditory stimuli for human social interactions conveying linguistic content but also offering several paralinguistic cues about the speakers, including their identity, gender, age, and emotional state. Thus, from voices, it is possible to extract both the linguistic content conveying propositional meaning and the prosodic aspects conveying the speaker's...

34. The ontogenetic necessity to extract information from the auditory environment

Valentina Silvestri (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

9/23/24, 5:30 PM

Abstract complessivo di un simposio

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...

288. Fetal learning before and after birth: Exploiting neural entrainment to asses perinatal learning capacity

Nicolo Castellani (IMT Lucca)

9/23/24, 5:50 PM

Talk in simposio

Learning is the fundamental backbone of social creatures. In humans, learning is the essential ability to take advantage of what others have already experienced. Here, we want to evaluate the presence of learning during pregnancy and the maintenance of it after birth in postnatal life. Exploiting EEG neural entrainment, we want to evaluate the presence of a brain preference for a learned...

112. Cross-modal numerical information in the human newborns’ brain: an EEG frequency-tagging study

Elena Eccher (CIMeC - University of Trento)

9/23/24, 6:10 PM

Talk in simposio

Since the first hours of life human newborns are subjected to a multitude of stimuli and they need to learn quickly how to integrate visual and auditory input. Cross-modal integration operates not only at the perceptual level, where low-level features of stimuli such as shape, texture, and temporal occurrence are recognized, but also at a more abstract level. For instance, research has shown...

77. Movement-dependent modulation of audiotactile integration early in life: distinct patterns of multisensory integration following self- and externally-directed movements in adults and newborns

Alice Rossi Sebastiano (MANIBUS Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy)

9/23/24, 6:30 PM

Talk in simposio

Compelling evidence shows that audio-tactile multisensory integration (AT-MSI) is modulated by body proximity already at birth. In our view, early movement may represent the developmental context allowing to encode multisensory stimuli in a body-centered reference frame, by anchoring auditory and tactile inputs to the body through proprioception. Based on these premises, we addressed whether...

102. Predictive processes and linguistic patterns in early language acquisition

Silvia Polver

9/23/24, 6:40 PM

Talk in simposio

Brain functions depend on recognizing patterns to predict future events (Auksztulewicz et al., 2018; Morillon & Schroeder, 2015). Early in auditory processing, the brain detects repetitions, guiding attention to specific intervals in the auditory stream (Auksztulewicz et al., 2018). Speech perception involves the dynamic sampling of acoustic information across different time scales...