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Cross-situational learning of sign-like gestures in children and adults: a behavioural and event-related potential study
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol.40(10), pp.1324-1349
2025
Abstract
Drawing on the innate human ability to detect regularities in the language input (statistical learning), this study applies a cross-situational learning paradigm to test the learning of unfamiliar sign-like gestures (in the form of pseudosigns) for familiar spoken words in children and adults. Twenty-five children (8–11 years) and 19 adults (18–35 years) were familiarised with 8 word-pseudosign pairs and tested on a recognition and a semantic categorisation task, with simultaneous EEG recording. Both groups demonstrated above-chance accuracy, indicating successful learning of word-pseudosign pairs and their meanings, with an advantage of adults over children. Both groups also showed an N400 followed by an LPC response during the recognition task. During categorisation, adults demonstrated an N400 response, whereas, in children, an N400 emerged only when the correctly identified trials were considered. These results suggest that pseudosigns are highly salient linguistic inputs, likely to be learned through statistical computations.
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- Title
- Cross-situational learning of sign-like gestures in children and adults: a behavioural and event-related potential study
- Authors
- Arianna Colombani (Corresponding Author) - University of PotsdamVarghese Peter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - PsychologyQian Yin Mai - Macquarie UniversityAmanda Saskida - IRCCS Materno Infantile Burlo GarofoloNatalie Boll-Avetisyan - University of PotsdamOuti Tuomainen - University of PotsdamMridula Sharma - Macquarie University
- Publication details
- Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol.40(10), pp.1324-1349
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1080/23273798.2025.2539136
- ISSN
- 2327-3801; 2327-3798
- Copyright note
- © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Data Availability
- Stimuli, data frames, and analysis scripts are publicly available on this paper’s project page on the OSF platform at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YU94Q
- Grant note
- This work was supported by an IDEALAB scholarship from the University of Potsdam and Macquarie University (CTiMQRES IDEALAB, [grant number 20223934]). Costs for participant reimbursement were covered by Macquarie University under the Beijing Higher Talent Foundation [grant number 5282500] to MS.
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Psychology
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991148340002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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- Web Of Science research areas
- Audiology & Speech-language Pathology
- Behavioral Sciences
- Linguistics
- Psychology, Experimental