As a geriatric nurse practitioner, I see daily the benefits the older adult gains from learning sound dance and movement techniques.
The former was evaluated by correlation of the learning of sound-gesture associations with the BOLD signal, the latter question was addressed by application of functional connectivity analysis in order to identify brain areas working together in the dynamic process of learning sound-gesture associations.
"What we're showing is that babbling is not only to learn sounds, but also to learn transitions between sounds".
It can also learn sounds and repeat them, producing its own unique argot over time.
"Faya," I learned, sounds like fire but can mean electricity or lightning, and "dagadaga" sounds like "dagger dagger" but means "machine gun".
Monkeys have food calls and calls that identify predators, but these are inherited, not learned sounds".
Phalen: Reading helps kids learn sounds, vowels, consonants, prefixes, suffixes and gets kids actively involved.
Since then, birds gained the ability to learn sounds at least twice — once in the line leading to hummingbirds and again in the ancestor of parrots and songbirds.
However, contrary to the left pSTS activation for NP sounds, the activation for P sounds was reduced after training (Figs. 3 b and 4), consistent with the alleged role of this region in the categorization of newly learned sounds.
Music is a useful tool as the mind learns sounds before words, so use sound to learn.
