Juan M Toro
Biographic Data
| ID | 8763384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan M Toro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Toro |
| SIGNATURE | TORO J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5336-5658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
Syllables are one of the fundamental building blocks of early language acquisition. From birth onwards, infants preferentially segment, process and represent the speech into syllable-sized units, raising the question of what type of computations infants are able to perform on these perceptual units. Syllables are abstract units structured in a way that allows grouping phonemes into sequences. The goal of this research was to investigate 4-to-5-mo…
Arc-shaped pitch contours facilitate item recognition in non-human animals
Acoustic changes linked to natural prosody are a key source of information about the organization of language. Both human infants and adults readily take advantage of such changes to discover and memorize linguistic patterns. Do they so because our brain is efficiently wired to specifically process linguistic stimuli? Or are we co-opting for language acquisition purposes more general principles that might be inherited from our animal ancestors? H…
Negative mental representations in infancy
Non-human animals detect the rhythmic structure of a familiar tune
Finding Words and Rules in a Speech Stream
We have proposed that consonants give cues primarily about the lexicon, whereas vowels carry cues about syntax. In a study supporting this hypothesis, we showed that when segmenting words from an artificial continuous stream, participants compute statistical relations over consonants, but not over vowels. In the study reported here, we tested the symmetrical hypothesis that when participants listen to words in a speech stream, they tend to exploi…
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Finding Words and Rules in a Speech Stream
We have proposed that consonants give cues primarily about the lexicon, whereas vowels carry cues about syntax. In a study supporting this hypothesis, we showed that when segmenting words from an artificial continuous stream, participants compute statistical relations over consonants, but not over vowels. In the study reported here, we tested the symmetrical hypothesis that when participants listen to words in a speech stream, they tend to exploi…
Non-human animals detect the rhythmic structure of a familiar tune
Arc-shaped pitch contours facilitate item recognition in non-human animals
Acoustic changes linked to natural prosody are a key source of information about the organization of language. Both human infants and adults readily take advantage of such changes to discover and memorize linguistic patterns. Do they so because our brain is efficiently wired to specifically process linguistic stimuli? Or are we co-opting for language acquisition purposes more general principles that might be inherited from our animal ancestors? H…
Negative mental representations in infancy
Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
Syllables are one of the fundamental building blocks of early language acquisition. From birth onwards, infants preferentially segment, process and represent the speech into syllable-sized units, raising the question of what type of computations infants are able to perform on these perceptual units. Syllables are abstract units structured in a way that allows grouping phonemes into sequences. The goal of this research was to investigate 4-to-5-mo…
Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Speech recognition (3 works) · Communication (2 works) · Phonology (2 works) · Phonotactics (2 works)