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Program

Thursday, June 09 2022.

 

08:00 – 8:50    Registration & Welcome Coffee

 

08:50 – 9:00    Opening Remarks

 

09:00 – 10:30  Keynote 1: Prof. Catherine Tamis-LeMonda

The Embodied Nature of Infant Language Learning

(Sponsored by IBRO Conference Sponsorships program)

 

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee Break

 

11:00 – 13:00  Oral Session 1

 

11:00-11:20

OS. 1.1.

The effects of the speaker’s eye gaze on infants’ speech processing and word segmentation

Melis Çetinçelik, Caroline F. Rowland & Tineke M. Snijders

11:20-11:40

OS. 1.2.

Lexicality is processed before phonological grammar in 19-month-olds

Susana Silva, Cátia Severino, Marina Vigário & Sónia Frota

11:40-12:00

OS. 1.3.

Early electrophysiological markers in language and learning impairment: long-term follow-up from infancy to pre-school age and impact of early training

Chiara Cantiani, Chiara Dondena, Massimo Molteni & Valentina Riva

12:00-12:20

OS. 1.4

Assessing language development across infancy: Early experimental measures and longitudinal brain-behaviour associations

Sinead Rocha, Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Adam Attaheri, Natasha Mead, Helen Olawole-Scott, Christina Grey, Isabel Williams, Samuel Gibbon, Panagiotis Boutris, Perrine Brusini & Usha Goswami

12:20-12:40

OS. 1.5

The processing of gender features in toddlers: An ERP study

Giulia Mornati, Perrine Brusini, Laura Cordolcini, Maria Teresa Guasti & Chiara Cantiani

12:40-13:00

OS. 1.6

The impact of temporally degraded speech on neural phonetic processing in infants and adults

Monica Hegde & Laurianne Cabrera

 

13:00 – 15:00  Lunch Break

 

15:00 – 16:40  Oral Session 2

 

15:00-15:20

OS. 2.1.

Parent-child interaction, but not socioeconomic status influences language development in the first year of life

Sarah der Nederlanden, Jeannette Schaeffer, Hedwig van Bakel & Evelien Dirks

15:20-15:40

OS. 2.2.

The interplay between parental input, children’s interests and early word learning

Rajalakshmi Madhavan &  Nivedita Mani

15:40-16:00

OS. 2.3.

Discourse effects on the phonetic clarity of words in American English infant-directed speech

Daniel Swingley

16:00-16:20

OS. 2.4

Parents’ hyper-pitch and vowel category compactness in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary

Audun Rosslund, Julien Mayor, Gabriella Óturai &  Natalia Kartushina

16:20-16:40

OS. 2.5

Vowel hyperarticulation in Infant-Directed Speech: A Meta-Analysis

Irena Lovcevic, Titia Benders, Christina Dideriksen, Sho Tsuji & Riccardo Fusaroli

 

16:40 – 18:00  Poster Session I & Coffee Break  

(IBRO STUDENT POSTER AWARD: Poster presentations with first authors who are graduate or undergraduate students will be considered for the Student Best Poster Award sponsored by the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). The winner will be announced at the end of the conference and will receive a prize of 300€ and a certificate.)

 

PS. 1. 1.

Caregivers’ Language Attitudes and Code-Switching Habits in Multilingual Environments

PS. 1. 2.

Caregivers differ in verbal and nonverbal responsiveness during early play

PS. 1. 3.

Infant-Directed Communication: Examining the multimodal dynamics of infants’ everyday interactions with caregivers

PS. 1. 4.

Infant-directed speech supports phonotactic learning in German

PS. 1. 5.

Infants’ social preference for artificially sounding native speakers and robot agents

PS. 1. 6.

Parents' cell phone usage and young children's language development

PS. 1. 7.

Size Sound Symbolism in Mothers’ Speech to their Infants

PS. 1. 8.

The role of caregiver feedback on early vocalisations: Investigating infants’ phonological development following cochlear implantation

PS. 1. 9.

The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants

PS. 1. 10.

A Baby Test Toy as a new method for testing infants’ auditory preferences

PS. 1. 11.

A resource of word associations in 3-year-olds which are not captured by adult associative norms

PS. 1. 12.

Alignments between direct tablet-based assessment of word comprehension and parental reports depend on the child’s age and word types

PS. 1. 13.

Development of a touchscreen based language measure for French toddlers

PS. 1. 14.

Exploring a novel method for plotting families’ activities during a daylong recording of children’s naturalistic language input

PS. 1. 15.

Lookit Plus: Infancy Research in the Time of Covid - and Beyond

PS. 1. 16.

ManyBabies-AtHome Looking While Listening: Constructing an online, cross-linguistic investigation of word recognition

PS. 1. 17.

Measuring interest in early childhood - a validation of various interest measures of young children

PS. 1. 18.

Not the same category? Online and laboratory-based infant looking time data

PS. 1. 19.

Phase-locking of non-nutritive sucking to language stimuli: Understanding infants’ synchronization to speech.

PS. 1. 20.

Relationships between different measures of language development in Czech children

PS. 1. 21.

A pre-registered systematic review of methods used for detecting MMNs for categorical perception of sounds, with particular attention to speech sounds in infant

PS. 1. 22.

Acoustic sensitivity to vowels and fricatives during the first year of life and its relationship with later lexical development

PS. 1. 23.

Acquisition of novel lexical items: an event-related potential study in French-learning 2-year-olds

PS. 1. 24.

Amplitude modulation following response in 3-month-old infants: is there a link with the ability to perceive speech in noise?

PS. 1. 25.

An electrophysiological study on stress discrimination by European Portuguese-learning infants

PS. 1. 26.

Artificial language segmentation in 6-to-7 month-old German-learning infants

PS. 1. 27.

Brain Myelination at 7 Months of Age Predicts Language Production During Early Childhood

PS. 1. 28.

Brain Myelin Density at 7 Months of Age Predicts Neural Sensitivity to Speech Contrasts at 11 Months of Age

PS. 1. 29.

Cortical tracking of auditory rhythm across the first year: An EEG study

PS. 1. 30.

Disentangling the factors that influence polarity in infant MMR - A critical review

PS. 1. 31.

Infants show enhanced neural response to musical meter frequencies

PS. 1. 32.

Nonadjacent dependency learning in French-learning 27-month-old toddlers

PS. 1. 33.

Representing prosodic cues in the 6-month- old infants’ brain

PS. 1. 34.

Why do young children undress oranges? The neural signatures of unconventional verb extensions.

PS. 1. 35.

Caregiver responsivity, acceptance, and school readiness cognitive components in a Uruguayan sample

PS. 1. 36.

Sustained Pacifier Use is Associated with Smaller Vocabulary Sizes at 1 and 2 Years of Age.

PS. 1. 37.

Verb learning in Japanese and English: Do Comparisons Help?

PS. 1. 38.

Relating referential clarity and auditory clarity in infant-directed speech

PS. 1. 39.

The role of talker identity on semantic representations of newly learned words

PS. 1. 40.

Cortical Tracking of Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech in the First Year of Life

Friday, June 10 2022.

 

09:00 – 11:00  Oral session 3

 

09:00-09:20

OS. 3.1.

Neural correlates of amplitude and formant rise time weighting in infants at- and not at-risk for dyslexia

 

Antonia Goetz, Peter Varghese, Marina Kalashikova, Denis Burnham & Usha Goswami

09:20-09:40

OS. 3.2.

Exploring effects of exposure to harmonic and non-harmonic languages on perceptual preferences in infants growing up in Ghana

Paul Okyere Omane, Titia Benders & Natalie Boll-Avetisyan

09:40-10:00

OS. 3.3.

The consonant-bias is influenced by syllabic position in a familiar word recognition conflict task

Leonardo Piot, Sandrien Van Ommen, Silvana Poltrock & Thierry Nazzi

10:00-10:20

OS. 3.4

Early word segmentation behind the mask

Sónia Frota, Jovana Pejovic, Marisa Cruz, Cátia Severino & Marina Vigário

10:20-10:40

OS. 3.5

The impact of labels on working memory in 18- and 26-month-old toddlers

Jelena Sucevic &  Kim Plunkett

10:40-11:00

OS. 3.6

Vocabulary development in blind infants and toddlers: The influence of vision on early vocabulary

Erin Campbell & Elika Bergelson

 

11:00-11:30     Coffee Break

 

11:30 – 13:00  Keynote 2: Prof. Usha Goswami

Language Acquisition: A Temporal Sampling Perspective

 

13:00 – 15:00  Lunch Break

 

15:00 – 16:30  Oral Session 4:

 

15:00-15:20

OS. 4.1.

Phonetic Features Excel Acoustics at 14 Months: Naturalistic Evidence from EEG Encoding Models across the First Five Years

Katharina Menn, Claudia Männel & Meyer Lars

15:20-15:40

OS. 4.2.

Neural correlates of mutual exclusivity in bilingual and monolingual toddlers

Maria Arredondo, Drew Weatherhead & Janet Werker

15:40-16:00

OS. 4.3.

Cortical tracking and phase amplitude coupling to sung speech in adults vs infants: A developmental comparison

Adam Attaheri, Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Sinead Rocha, Perrine Brusini, Natasha Mead, Helen Olawole-Scott, Panagiotis Boutris, Samuel Gibbon, Isabel Williams, Christina Grey, Sheila Flanagan, Dimitris Panayiotou, Alessia Phillips & Usha Goswami

16:00-16:20

OS. 4.4

Infant neural entrainment to complex musical and speech stimuli: association with language acquisition and impact of early rhythmic training

Chiara Cantiani, Chiara Dondena, Massimo Molteni, Valentina Riva & Caterina Piazza

16:20-16:40

OS. 4.5

The rhythm takes it all: A developmental approach to bilingual listeners’ cortical tracking of speech after brief exposure to music.

Laura Fernández-Merino, Mikel Lizarazu, Nicola Molinaro & Marina Kalashnikova

 

16:40 – 18:00  Poster Session II & Coffe Break

(IBRO STUDENT POSTER AWARD: Poster presentations with first authors who are graduate or undergraduate students will be considered for the Student Best Poster Award sponsored by the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). The winner will be announced at the end of the conference and will receive a prize of 300€ and a certificate.)

 

PS. 2. 1.

Are vocabulary outcomes in children with cochlear implants affected by music exposure and maternal musicality?

PS. 2. 2.

Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view

PS. 2. 3.

Infants Born At Risk vs Not At Risk for Dyslexia: Effects on Later Auditory-Visual Processing

PS. 2. 4.

Infants’ neural speech discrimination predicts individual differences in grammar ability at 6 years of age and their risk of developing speech-language disorders

PS. 2. 5.

Neural processing of speech is related to cognitive skills in infants

PS. 2. 6.

Seeing is hearing: Neural and behavioural adaptations in children with hearing loss before cochlear implantation

PS. 2. 7.

Selective attention to the mouth of signing faces

PS. 2. 8.

The influence of dyslexia risk status on child language timing measures

PS. 2. 9.

Conversational turn-prediction abilities in bilingual toddlers

PS. 2 10.

Early language processing skills in monolingual and bilingual infants

PS. 2. 11.

Exploring differences between monolingual and multilingual infants on the CDI and ASQ

PS. 2. 12.

How dialectal variability affects early word form recognition - Testing mono- and bi-varietal children via an App

PS. 2. 13.

Impact of bilingual books on the use of extra-textual talk during bookreading interactions in bilingual parent-child dyads

PS. 2. 14.

Lexical-semantic activation in dominant and non-dominant languages of French-Spanish and French-English bilingual toddlers: an ERP investigation

PS. 2. 15.

The emergence of inhibitory links in the developing lexicon: insights from bilingual participants

PS. 2. 16.

How to build a CDI: insights from adaptations to 40 different languages

PS. 2. 17.

Language measures in the YOUth cohort: Validating the modified N-CDIs and PPVT-III-NL

PS. 2. 18.

Coping with dialects from birth: Role of variability on infants’ early language development. Insights from Norwegian dialects

PS. 2. 19.

Early predictors of language outcomes: Prosody and gestures

PS. 2. 20.

Infants use word-level stress for word recognition

PS. 2. 21.

Is tactile rhythm perception related to early language skills? an explorative study

PS. 2. 22.

Language-mediated selective attention in 18- and 26-month-old toddlers

PS. 2. 23.

Mask wearing in Japanese and French nursery schools: The perceived impact of masks on communication

PS. 2. 24.

Phonological Abstraction in Early Infancy: An Amodal Speech Perception Study

PS. 2. 25.

Six-month olds detect a novel speech sound contrast more effectively from unfamiliar rhythm

PS. 2. 26.

The impact of spectrally degraded speech on the word segmentation abilities on infants with normal hearing

PS. 2. 27.

The Interrelatedness of Speech and Face Discrimination Beyond Perceptual Attunement

PS. 2. 28.

Memory-card phonetic training of English vowels for bilingual children

PS. 2. 29.

Active learning and feedback in word learning

PS. 2. 30.

Do German-learning infants rely on word frequency differences within the looking-while-listening task?

PS. 2. 31.

Do toddlers implicitly name familiar objects?: Considering the effects of age and preview time.

PS. 2. 32.

Exploring systematicity in the developing lexicon with phonological networks

PS. 2. 33.

On the Dimensional Structure of Vocabulary and Grammar in Early Language Development

PS. 2. 34.

Season-of-birth effects on infant vocabulary size

PS. 2. 35.

Sensorimotor maturation impacts early lexical processing: initial evidence

PS. 2. 36.

Supporting referent selection through word form-meaning systematicity

PS. 2. 37.

The role of word properties in early word learning: A study with Polish Communicative Development Inventories

PS. 2. 38.

The semantic interference in 9- to 36- month-olds: An at-home eye-tracking study on infants lexical abilities

PS. 2. 39.

Using eye tracking to better understand children’s processing of events during verb learning: Is the focus on people (faces) or their actions (hands)?

PS. 2. 40.

Vocabulary composition in early lexical development of Croatian speaking two-year-old children

PS. 2. 41.

Language resources, language choices, and translanguaging in parent/child interactions in Singapore

 

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20:30- CONFERENCE DINNER

 

 

Saturday, June 11 2022.

 

9:30 – 11:00    Keynote 3: Prof. Kim Plunkett

How Infants Build a Semantic System

 

11:00-11:30     Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:30     Oral session 5

 

11:30-11:50

OS. 5.1.

Early bilingual experience constrains attentional development

Dean D'Souza & Hana D'Souza

11:50-12:10

OS. 5.2.

Children’s exposure to language switching in bilingual homes across two communities

Jessica Kosie, Rachel Tsui, Taylor Martinez, Andrea Sander, Laia Fibla, Christine Potter, Krista Byers-Heinlein & Casey Lew-Williams

12:10-12:30

OS. 5.3.

Infant Exposure to Speech in Multicultural Environments

Anna Caunt & Rana Abu-Zhaya

 

12:30 – 12:40  Break

 

12:40-14:20     Oral session 6

 

12:40-13:00

OS. 6.1.

Consistency and reporting in preprocessing and analysis of infant ERP data - a systematic review

Mariella Paul & Nivedita Mani

13:00-13:20

OS. 6.2.

The (null) effect of socio-economic status on the language and gestures of young infants: Evidence from British English and eight other languages

Caroline Rowland, Katherine Alcock & Kerstin Meints

13:20-13:40

OS. 6.3.

COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains

Natalia Kartushina, Nivedita Mani, Christina Bergmann & Julien Mayor

13:40-14:00

OS. 6.4

Vocabulary size lag in UK bilingual toddlers relative to monolinguals in both comprehension and production

Serene Siow, Nicola Gillen, Irina Lepadatu & Kim Plunkett

 

14:00-14:15     Closing remarks and award of the IBRO best student poster prize winner

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