Our research is focused on the study of infant speech perception abilities, attention development and early language acquisition processes, both in normally developing infants (monolingual and bilingual) and in infants at risk for language and neurocognitive disorders.

 

Our methodological approach is mainly behavioural, with procedures that rely on attention, visual fixation and orientation latency measures.

 

Early language differentiation abilities, native language recognition, phonetic categorization of native and non-native speech sounds, the  beginnings of word segmentation, phonological encoding and word recognition processes are but some of the areas of research that we have developed in the UB infant Lab now located close to the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.