As a human faculty, the language acquisition apparatus is most sensi- tive in the first 12 months of a newborn child, but such sensitivity is biologically pre- programmed to gradually decline with age, as r
the child gradually loses sensitivity to discrete speech sounds and distinct lexico-grammatical patterns, making the (additional) language learning tasks progressively more challenging. One
Mental imagery can be defined as “representations and the accompanying experience of sensory information without a direct external stimulus” (Pearson et al.2015, p. 590), or in more colloquial terms as “‘seeing with the mind’s eye,’‘hearing with the mind’s ear,’ and so on” (Kos...
These traditions come together in later work where the focus is explicitly on behavioural experiments—active behaviour-based testing out of cognitions or beliefs (Bennett-Levy et al. 2004)—for example in using video-recording of a speech task to test negative beliefs about the accuracy of a ...