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Perceptual Narrowing in InfantsBetween the ages of 6 and 9 months, infants’ ability to notice small details that aren’t relevant to them declines. For example, a study showed that infants at 6 months hear all the sounds in a foreign language, but the ability declines by 9 months if they’re not continually exposed to the language. Called “perceptual narrowing,” ...[read more] - September 2008. 
Infants fine-tune visual and auditory skills in first year of lifeInfants refine and narrow their ability to discriminate between things they see and hear in their first year, revealing what appears to be a decline in ability at a time when most other skills and functions are dramatically increasing, says Lisa S. Scott...[read more] - December 11, 2007. |