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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Speech Science

Background:

  • Keven & Akins challenged developmental psychology to analyze complex processes like intermodal infant perception across multiple levels.
  • Understanding the developmental origins of perception-production links is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the challenge posed by Keven & Akins regarding the analysis of complex psychological processes.
  • To investigate the role of early emerging stereotypies in linking speech perception and production.

Main Methods:

  • Review and theoretical analysis of existing literature on infant motor stereotypies and speech development.
  • Conceptual integration of findings from developmental psychology and neuroscience.

Main Results:

  • Early motor stereotypies present a potential explanatory framework for the development of intermodal perception.
  • These stereotypies may provide foundational mechanisms for connecting how infants perceive speech and how they produce it.

Conclusions:

  • Early emerging stereotypies offer a novel perspective on the developmental underpinnings of speech perception-production links.
  • Further research into motor patterns can illuminate the emergence of complex cognitive functions in infancy.