Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in NicaraguaAnn Senghas
Department of Psychology, Barnard College of Columbia University, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
Science 305:1779-82. 2004..Thus, children naturally possess learning abilities capable of giving language its fundamental structure...
- Children creating language: how Nicaraguan sign language acquired a spatial grammarA Senghas
Department of Psychology, Barnard College of Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 6598, USA
Psychol Sci 12:323-8. 2001....
- Language promotes false-belief understanding: evidence from learners of a new sign languageJENNIE E PYERS
Department of Psychology, Wellesley College, 106 Central St, SCI480, Wellesley, MA 02841, USA
Psychol Sci 20:805-12. 2009..Thus, language learning, over and above social experience, drives the development of a mature theory of mind...
- Numerosity and number signs in deaf Nicaraguan adultsMolly Flaherty
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, 5848 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Cognition 121:427-36. 2011..A memorized sequence of number symbols is required, though even an unconventional, iconic system is sufficient. Additionally, we find that within a numerate culture, the ability to track precise quantities can be acquired in adulthood...
- Infant rule learning: advantage language, or advantage speech?Hugh Rabagliati
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e40517. 2012..This is consistent with results of studies that demonstrate lower levels of infant rule learning from a variety of other non-speech stimuli, and we discuss implications for accounts of speech-facilitation...
- Language emergence: clues from a new bedouin signAnn Senghas
Barnard College of Columbia University, Department of Psychology, 3005 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
Curr Biol 15:R463-5. 2005..This newly reported case sheds light on the minimal environmental social factors required to generate a language...