Bimodal signaling in infants
Bimodal signaling in infants
1. There are mirror neurons that are visual and audio-visual in nature—what does this
mean?
Those that are said to be visual are triggered through the view of certain actions. Moreover, those
that are audio visual are triggered through the vision of sound and sight of particular actions, and
are hence connected with a specific sound.
2. What does the author mean by the term bimodal signaling?
This is the manual behaviors and how they improve the development and frequency of spoken
language in present infants.
3. The onset of babbling usually occurs with the onset of hand banging—what is the author
trying to convince the reader of?
The writer is trying to demonstrate to us the co-relation between vocalization and rhythmic
movements of the body, which included the head, arms, torso, and legs. He further notes that
during or before the onset of babbling, the co-relation of vocalization and rhythmic movements
of the legs and hands reaches a peak.
4. What is the author trying to say by mentioning the different experiments in the section
titled “Mechanism”?
He is trying to propose specifically that, the perisylvian cortex, and that arm regulate scheduled
movements of the vocal tract and the hand
