| Title: |
Impact of language familiarity on abstract pattern recognition in 9- to 12-month-old infants |
| Authors: |
Fratacci, Althéa; Clerc, Olivier; Fort, Mathilde; Pascalis, Olivier |
| Contributors: |
Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC); Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA); Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL); Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL); Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM); Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE) (UJM EPE)-Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE) (UJM EPE)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 0165-0254. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; SAGE Publications |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Inserm: HAL (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) |
| Subject Terms: |
[SCCO]Cognitive science |
| Description: |
International audience ; Previous studies found an impact of language familiarity on face recognition in 9- and 12-month-olds. Own race faces are better recognized when associated with native language, whereas for other race faces, it is with non-native language. The aim of this study is to investigate if language familiarity can also influence abstract pattern recognition. We tested 9- to 12-month-old monolingual infants with a visual paired-comparison task. During a 30-s familiarization phase, infants were shown an image of abstract patterns associated with an auditory soundtrack of a speaker reciting a story either in their native (French) or in a non-native language (German). After the familiarization, the familiar and a new abstract pattern were displayed side by side for the recognition test. We found a significant preference for the novel object in the native language condition but not in the non-native condition. These results suggest that language familiarity effects on infant memory are not specific to faces but also influence, on a larger scale, how infants process their immediate visual environment. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1177/01650254241230643 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-05360328; https://hal.science/hal-05360328v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-05360328v1/file/Frattaci2024.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254241230643 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.6934C413 |
| Database: |
BASE |