University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: Toddler

Jenny Saffran, PhD – Slide of the Week

Title: Toddlers make use of speaker’s genders while listening to words Legend: Toddlers viewed pairs of familiar objects selected to be prototypically male or female. As they listened to words referring to these objects, we tracked their eye gaze. Toddlers were faster to fixate prototypically-gendered objects when they heard a voice from the same gender …

New study finds toddlers incorporate gender into their language processing

Our understanding of language relies on more than just the spoken word. A myriad of external cues, like nonverbal signals and a person’s characteristics, contribute to how we understand and process language as we speak and communicate with others.