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    Summary of John Colapinto's This Is the Voice
    Summary of John Colapinto's This Is the Voice
    Summary of John Colapinto's This Is the Voice
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    Summary of John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

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    #1 The first experiments in fetal hearing were conducted in the early 1920s. By around twenty-eight weeks’ gestation, the fetus can detect sounds. The mother’s voice is especially important for this learning, as it is felt as vibrations against the body.

    #2 The ability to hear speech in the womb is limited, and the uterine wall muffles voices into an indistinct rumble that allows only the rises and falls of emotional prosody to penetrate. However, after two months of intense focus on the mother’s vocal signal, a newborn emerges into the world clearly recognizing the mother’s voice and showing a marked preference for it.

    #3 The developing brain works on a use it or lose it basis. Circuitry that is not activated by environmental stimuli is pruned away. The opposite happens for brain circuits that are repeatedly stimulated by the human voice. They grow stronger and more efficient.

    #4 The voices we hear around us in infancy physically sculpt our brain, pruning away unneeded circuits, strengthening the necessary ones, and specializing the brain for perceiving the specific sounds of our native tongue.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateJun 7, 2022
    ISBN9798822533097
    Summary of John Colapinto's This Is the Voice
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      #1

      The first experiments in fetal hearing were conducted in the early 1920s. By around twenty-eight weeks’ gestation, the fetus can detect sounds. The mother’s voice is especially important for this learning, as it is felt as vibrations against the body.

      #2

      The ability to hear speech in the womb is limited, and the uterine wall muffles voices into an indistinct rumble that allows only the rises and falls of emotional prosody to penetrate. However, after two months of intense focus on the mother’s vocal signal, a newborn emerges into the world clearly recognizing the mother’s voice and showing a marked preference for it.

      #3

      The developing brain works on a use it or lose it basis. Circuitry that is not activated by environmental stimuli is pruned away. The opposite happens for brain circuits that are repeatedly stimulated by the human voice. They grow stronger and more efficient.

      #4

      The voices we hear around us in infancy physically sculpt our brain, pruning away unneeded circuits, strengthening the necessary ones, and specializing the brain for perceiving the specific sounds of our native tongue.

      #5

      Babies are not passive receptors of the speech that surrounds them. They are able to detect and analyze patterns in the voices they hear very early on, and use those patterns to locate word boundaries.

      #6

      The first sound clusters as a possible stand-alone word, staytlee, is identified by an American baby. The second two syllables, however, do not make an English word, and the baby uses another type of statistical analysis to deal with that.

      #7

      Babies do not learn how to speak, but they do learn how to assign meaning to each small cluster of sounds, which we call a word. Adults

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