Caroline Junge
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5890585 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Caroline Junge |
| PRENOMES | Caroline |
| SOBRENOME | Junge |
| ASSINATURA | JUNGE C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9876-8058 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Language and socio-emotional development of children before, during, and after Covid-19: Lessons from the YOUth cohort
COVID-19 regulations limited young children's social learning experiences. This large-scale study examined whether children (5 months-4 years) assessed during or after the COVID-19 pandemic differ in language and socio-emotional development. We compared data from 2,166 children tested pre- (July 2015-March 2020), during (March 2020-July 2022), and post-COVID-19 regulations (July 2022-October 2023). Vocabulary was measured using the Dutch MacArthu…
The Influence of Prenatal Language Exposure on the Use of Pitch in Newborns’ Vocalisations: A Systematic Review
Prenatal language exposure has been shown to influence early speech perception, with evidence suggesting that the acquisition of certain aspects of native-language prosody may begin before birth. While this notion has been well-supported from a perceptual perspective, findings across available production studies are inconsistent. This study, therefore, explored whether the pitch of newborns’ early vocalisations is influenced by prenatal exposure …
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific
Limited studies have examined demographic differences in children’s vocabulary in longitudinal samples, while there are questions regarding the duration, direction, and magnitude of these effects across development. In this longitudinal study, we included over 400 Dutch children. Caregivers filled out N-CDIs when children were 9–11 months (measuring word comprehension, word production, and gestures) and around 2–5 years of age (measuring word pro…
How Infants Direct Their Gaze to Faces in the Presence of Other Objects: The Development of Face Preference Between 4 and 7 Months After Birth
From early in development, infants process faces in their environment differentially from other items. By around 6 months of age, they are able to orient toward faces in the presence of distractor items. This paper aimed to assess whether this preferential looking toward faces was observable prior to 6 months of age, and whether there were developmental trends. We assessed this using the face pop‐out task, a free viewing eye‐tracking experiment i…
The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes
There is robust evidence that infants' gestures and vocalisations and caregivers' contingent responses predict later child vocabulary. Recent studies suggest that dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' responses are more robust predictors of children's vocabularies than these behaviors separately. Previous studies have not yet systematically compared different types of dyadic combinations. This study aimed to compare the predic…
Production of intonational phrase boundaries in Dutch
In spoken language, major prosodic boundaries can be marked by three types of prosodic cues: pitch change, final lengthening, and pause. Although these cues appear cross-linguistically, their relative weight in signaling boundaries is considered language-specific. However, very little is known about prosodic phrasing in the production of Dutch. Past studies on Dutch prosodic phrasing mostly focused on boundary perception, suggesting that pause is…
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability
Being exposed to narrative fiction may provide us with practice in dealing with social interactions and thereby enhance our ability to engage in mentalizing (understanding other people’s mental states). The current study uses a confirmatory Bayesian approach to assess the relationship between mentalizing and both the self-reported frequency of exposure to narrative fiction across media (books, films, and TV series) and the particular types of fic…
Two-year-olds at elevated risk for ASD can learn novel words from their parents
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have smaller vocabularies in infancy compared to typically-developing children. To understand whether their smaller vocabularies stem from problems in learning, our study compared a prospective risk sample of 18 elevated risk and 11 lower risk 24-month-olds on current vocabulary size and word learning ability using a paradigm in which parents teach their child words. Results revealed th…
Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference
Psychological scientists have become increasingly concerned with issues related to methodology and replicability, and infancy researchers in particular face specific challenges related to replicability: For example, high-powered studies are difficult to conduct, testing conditions vary across labs, and different labs have access to different infant populations. Addressing these concerns, we report on a large-scale, multisite study aimed at (a) as…
Beneficial effects of the mother's voice on infants’ novel word learning
The maternal voice appears to have a special role in infants’ language processing. The current eye‐tracking study investigated whether 24‐month‐olds ( n = 149) learn novel words easier while listening to their mother's voice compared to hearing unfamiliar speakers. Our results show that maternal speech facilitates the formation of new word–object mappings across two different learning settings: a live setting in which infants are taught by their …
Distributional Information Shapes Infants’ Categorization of Objects
While distributional learning has been successfully demonstrated for auditory categorization, this study tests whether this mechanism also applies to object categorization: Ten‐month‐olds ( n = 38) were familiarized with either a unimodal or bimodal distribution of a visual continuum. Using automatic eye tracking, we assessed categorization through the alternating/nonalternating paradigm. For infants in the bimodal condition, their average dwell …
Individual Differences in Infant Speech Segmentation: Achieving the Lexical Shift
We report a large‐scale electrophysiological study of infant speech segmentation, in which over 100 English‐acquiring 9‐month‐olds were exposed to unfamiliar bisyllabic words embedded in sentences (e.g., He saw a wild eagle up there ), after which their brain responses to either the just‐familiarized word ( eagle ) or a control word ( coral ) were recorded. When initial exposure occurs in continuous speech, as here, past studies have reported tha…
Successful Word Recognition by 10‐Month‐Olds Given Continuous Speech Both at Initial Exposure and Test
Most words that infants hear occur within fluent speech. To compile a vocabulary, infants therefore need to segment words from speech contexts. This study is the first to investigate whether infants (here: 10‐month‐olds) can recognize words when both initial exposure and test presentation are in continuous speech. Electrophysiological evidence attests that this indeed occurs: An increased extended negativity (word recognition effect) appears for …
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Successful Word Recognition by 10‐Month‐Olds Given Continuous Speech Both at Initial Exposure and Test
Most words that infants hear occur within fluent speech. To compile a vocabulary, infants therefore need to segment words from speech contexts. This study is the first to investigate whether infants (here: 10‐month‐olds) can recognize words when both initial exposure and test presentation are in continuous speech. Electrophysiological evidence attests that this indeed occurs: An increased extended negativity (word recognition effect) appears for …
Distributional Information Shapes Infants’ Categorization of Objects
While distributional learning has been successfully demonstrated for auditory categorization, this study tests whether this mechanism also applies to object categorization: Ten‐month‐olds ( n = 38) were familiarized with either a unimodal or bimodal distribution of a visual continuum. Using automatic eye tracking, we assessed categorization through the alternating/nonalternating paradigm. For infants in the bimodal condition, their average dwell …
Individual Differences in Infant Speech Segmentation: Achieving the Lexical Shift
We report a large‐scale electrophysiological study of infant speech segmentation, in which over 100 English‐acquiring 9‐month‐olds were exposed to unfamiliar bisyllabic words embedded in sentences (e.g., He saw a wild eagle up there ), after which their brain responses to either the just‐familiarized word ( eagle ) or a control word ( coral ) were recorded. When initial exposure occurs in continuous speech, as here, past studies have reported tha…
Beneficial effects of the mother's voice on infants’ novel word learning
The maternal voice appears to have a special role in infants’ language processing. The current eye‐tracking study investigated whether 24‐month‐olds ( n = 149) learn novel words easier while listening to their mother's voice compared to hearing unfamiliar speakers. Our results show that maternal speech facilitates the formation of new word–object mappings across two different learning settings: a live setting in which infants are taught by their …
Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference
Psychological scientists have become increasingly concerned with issues related to methodology and replicability, and infancy researchers in particular face specific challenges related to replicability: For example, high-powered studies are difficult to conduct, testing conditions vary across labs, and different labs have access to different infant populations. Addressing these concerns, we report on a large-scale, multisite study aimed at (a) as…
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability
Being exposed to narrative fiction may provide us with practice in dealing with social interactions and thereby enhance our ability to engage in mentalizing (understanding other people’s mental states). The current study uses a confirmatory Bayesian approach to assess the relationship between mentalizing and both the self-reported frequency of exposure to narrative fiction across media (books, films, and TV series) and the particular types of fic…
Two-year-olds at elevated risk for ASD can learn novel words from their parents
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have smaller vocabularies in infancy compared to typically-developing children. To understand whether their smaller vocabularies stem from problems in learning, our study compared a prospective risk sample of 18 elevated risk and 11 lower risk 24-month-olds on current vocabulary size and word learning ability using a paradigm in which parents teach their child words. Results revealed th…
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific
Limited studies have examined demographic differences in children’s vocabulary in longitudinal samples, while there are questions regarding the duration, direction, and magnitude of these effects across development. In this longitudinal study, we included over 400 Dutch children. Caregivers filled out N-CDIs when children were 9–11 months (measuring word comprehension, word production, and gestures) and around 2–5 years of age (measuring word pro…
How Infants Direct Their Gaze to Faces in the Presence of Other Objects: The Development of Face Preference Between 4 and 7 Months After Birth
From early in development, infants process faces in their environment differentially from other items. By around 6 months of age, they are able to orient toward faces in the presence of distractor items. This paper aimed to assess whether this preferential looking toward faces was observable prior to 6 months of age, and whether there were developmental trends. We assessed this using the face pop‐out task, a free viewing eye‐tracking experiment i…
The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes
There is robust evidence that infants' gestures and vocalisations and caregivers' contingent responses predict later child vocabulary. Recent studies suggest that dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' responses are more robust predictors of children's vocabularies than these behaviors separately. Previous studies have not yet systematically compared different types of dyadic combinations. This study aimed to compare the predic…
Production of intonational phrase boundaries in Dutch
In spoken language, major prosodic boundaries can be marked by three types of prosodic cues: pitch change, final lengthening, and pause. Although these cues appear cross-linguistically, their relative weight in signaling boundaries is considered language-specific. However, very little is known about prosodic phrasing in the production of Dutch. Past studies on Dutch prosodic phrasing mostly focused on boundary perception, suggesting that pause is…
Language and socio-emotional development of children before, during, and after Covid-19: Lessons from the YOUth cohort
COVID-19 regulations limited young children's social learning experiences. This large-scale study examined whether children (5 months-4 years) assessed during or after the COVID-19 pandemic differ in language and socio-emotional development. We compared data from 2,166 children tested pre- (July 2015-March 2020), during (March 2020-July 2022), and post-COVID-19 regulations (July 2022-October 2023). Vocabulary was measured using the Dutch MacArthu…
The Influence of Prenatal Language Exposure on the Use of Pitch in Newborns’ Vocalisations: A Systematic Review
Prenatal language exposure has been shown to influence early speech perception, with evidence suggesting that the acquisition of certain aspects of native-language prosody may begin before birth. While this notion has been well-supported from a perceptual perspective, findings across available production studies are inconsistent. This study, therefore, explored whether the pitch of newborns’ early vocalisations is influenced by prenatal exposure …
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