Effects of language experience: Neural commitment to language-specific auditory patterns
Effects of language experience: Neural commitment to language-specific auditory patterns
Yang Zhang,P. Kuhl,2 Authors,Y. Tohkura
2005 · DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.02.040
NeuroImage · 193 Citations
TLDR
It is argued that early exposure to a particular language produces a "neural commitment" to the acoustic properties of that language and that this neural commitment interferes with foreign language processing, making it less efficient.