Infant Memory in Development: window for understanding language and brain plasticity from birth

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

11/PSIC-02 - Developmental And Educational Psychology

Description

Although infants perform more poorly than adults on many cognitive tasks, they are more competent language learners. Newborns must have access to an exceptional processing system where bits of the - inherently transient- speech signal remain encoded to build knowledge of the language around them. Memory, the ability to hold information in mind that is no longer present in the environment, is one of the most important components of this machinery. As yet, however, what characterizes the first cognitive and neural architectures of memory and if (and to what extent) these mechanisms constraint human language remain largely unexplained. IN-MIND proposes a fresh perspective that particularly emphasizes the study of verbal long-term and working memories as a journey in its development during infancy

Compensation

22,500

Job posting website

https://www.dpss.unipd.it/newsbandi/termine/86

Number of positions

1

Maximum duration

24.0

Funding body

Università degli Studi di Padova

Selection process