Electroencephalography equipment for studying auditory cortical maturation in young children

为了学习口语，幼儿必须处理一个重要的声音：言语。我研究儿童的大脑如何处理声音，以及他们处理声音的能力如何影响他们发展口语的难易程度。我们知道，同年龄的孩子在语言技能的复杂程度上是不同的。我之前的nserc资助的研究和其他人的研究表明，相同年龄的孩子对简单声音（如哔哔声）的大脑反应的复杂程度也有所不同。此外，这两个过程（听觉和语言）的成熟似乎是联系在一起的。这项先前的研究让该领域的许多人认为，大脑处理简单声音的能力

To learn spoken language, young children must process an important sound: speech. I study how children’s brains process sounds, and how their ability to do this impacts how easy or hard it is for them to develop spoken language. We know that children of the same age vary in the exact sophistication of their language skills. My prior NSERC-funded research and the research of others has revealed that children of the same age also vary in the exact sophistication of their brain responses to simple sounds such as beeps. Moreover, the maturity of these two processes (auditory and language) seems to be linked. This prior research has led many of us in the field to assume that the brain’s ability to process simple sounds