Language development and perinatal stroke, with Elissa Newport

11/23/21 • 70 min

In this episode, I talk with Elissa Newport, Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, about her work on the neural and cognitive underpinnings of language development, including statistical learning, language after perinatal stroke, lateralization, plasticity, the critical period, and more.

Saffran JR, Aslin RN, Newport EL. Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants. Science 1996; 274: 1926-8. [doi]

Newport EL, Landau B, Seydell-Greenwald A, Turkeltaub PE, Chambers CE, Dromerick AW, Carpenter J, Berl MM, Gaillard WD. Revisiting Lenneberg’s hypotheses about early developmental plasticity: Language organization after left-hemisphere perinatal stroke. Biolinguistics 2017; 11: 407-22. [doi]

Olulade OA, Seydell-Greenwald A, Chambers CE, Turkeltaub PE, Dromerick AW, Berl MM, Gaillard WD, Newport EL. The neural basis of language development: Changes in lateralization over age. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2020; 117: 23477-83. [doi]

Elissa Newport’s website

11/23/21 • 70 min

The Language Neuroscience Podcast - Language development and perinatal stroke, with Elissa Newport

Transcript

Stephen Wilson00:00:06.120

Welcome to Episode 17 of the language neuroscience Podcast. I'm Stephen Wilson and I'm a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. If you're a regular listener, I apologize for the delay between episodes. It's been a busy semester, and I'm sure that everybody can empathize. But I hope you'll agree that this episode is worth the wait. My guest today is a living legend of our field, Elissa Newport, Professor of Neurology and reha

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