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Laura-Ann Petitto

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Laura-Ann Petitto's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of California, San Diego
Masters Psychology University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Psychology University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Laura-Ann Petitto is a cognitive neuroscientist and a developmental cognitive neuroscientist known for her research and scientific discoveries involving the language capacity of chimpanzees, the biological bases of language in humans, especially early language acquisition , early reading, and bilingualism, bilingual reading, and the bilingual brain. Significant scientific discoveries include the existence of linguistic babbling on the hands of deaf babies and the equivalent neural processing of signed and spoken languages in the human brain. She is recognized for her contributions to the creation of the new scientific discipline, called educational neuroscience. Petitto chaired a new undergraduate department at Dartmouth College, called "Educational Neuroscience and Human Development" , and was a Co-Principal Investigator in the National Science Foundation and Dartmouth's Science of Learning Center, called the "Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience" . At Gallaudet University , Petitto led a team in the creation of the first PhD in Educational Neuroscience program in the United States. Petitto is the Co-Principal Investigator as well as Science Director of the National Science Foundation and Gallaudet University’s Science of Learning Center, called the "Visual Language and Visual Learning Center ". Petitto is also founder and Scientific Director of the Brain and Language Laboratory for Neuroimaging at Gallaudet University.

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Laura-Ann Petitto's Published Works

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On the biological foundations of language (2000) (1567)
Babbling in the manual mode: evidence for the ontogeny of language. (1991) (654)
Can an ape create a sentence? (1979) (572)
Speech-like cerebral activity in profoundly deaf people processing signed languages: implications for the neural basis of human language. (2000) (486)
Bilingual signed and spoken language acquisition from birth: implications for the mechanisms underlying early bilingual language acquisition (2001) (396)
On the autonomy of language and gesture: Evidence from the acquisition of personal pronouns in American sign language (1987) (280)
The “Perceptual Wedge Hypothesis” as the basis for bilingual babies’ phonetic processing advantage: New insights from fNIRS brain imaging (2012) (228)
Signing behavior in apes: A critical review (1979) (222)
Age of first bilingual language exposure as a new window into bilingual reading development. (2008) (193)
Simultaneous Communication in the Classroom: How Well is English Grammar Represented? (2013) (164)
Bilingual and Monolingual Brains Compared: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Syntactic Processing and a Possible Neural Signature of Bilingualism (2008) (163)
The morphometry of auditory cortex in the congenitally deaf measured using MRI (2003) (152)
Left Hemisphere Cerebral Specialization for Babies While Babbling (2002) (131)
Communication, symbolic communication, and language: Comment on Savage-Rumbaugh, McDonald, Sevcik, Hopkins, and Rupert (1986). (1987) (131)
Bilingual and monolingual brains compared: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of syntactic processing and a possible “neural signature” of bilingualism (2008) (126)
Baby hands that move to the rhythm of language: hearing babies acquiring sign languages babble silently on the hands (2004) (117)
Language rhythms in baby hand movements (2001) (115)
Semantic and Conceptual Knowledge Underlying Bilingual Babies' First Signs and Words (2002) (107)
Shining new light on the brain's “bilingual signature”: A functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy investigation of semantic processing (2008) (101)
New Discoveries From the Bilingual Brain and Mind Across the Life Span: Implications for Education (2009) (80)
How age of bilingual exposure can change the neural systems for language in the developing brain: A functional near infrared spectroscopy investigation of syntactic processing in monolingual and bilingual children☆ (2013) (75)
New Insights Into Old Puzzles From Infants' Categorical Discrimination of Soundless Phonetic Units (2006) (72)
Dual language use in sign-speech bimodal bilinguals: fNIRS brain-imaging evidence (2009) (70)
Evaluating Attributions of Delay and Confusion in Young Bilinguals: Special Insights from Infants Acquiring a Signed and a Spoken Language (2002) (68)
The perception of handshapes in American Sign Language (2005) (63)
How the brain begets language (2005) (56)
Fingerspelling as a Novel Gateway into Reading Fluency in Deaf Bilinguals (2015) (55)
On The Biological Foundations of Human Language (2000) (54)
Should Bilingual Children Learn Reading in Two Languages at the Same Time or in Sequence? (2013) (52)
Visual sign phonology: insights into human reading and language from a natural soundless phonology. (2016) (52)
Anatomical Substrates of Visual and Auditory Miniature Second-language Learning (2006) (45)
New findings from Educational Neuroscience on Bilingual Brains, Scientific Brains, and the Educated Mind (2005) (44)
Ape Signing: Problems of Method and Interpretation (1981) (44)
Development of Neural Systems for Reading in the Monolingual and Bilingual Brain: New Insights From Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Neuroimaging (2014) (43)
On the Ontogenetic Requirements for Early Language Acquisition (1993) (42)
On the evidence for linguistic abilities in signing apes (1979) (42)
Teaching Language to Deaf Infants with a Robot and a Virtual Human (2018) (38)
Are There Separate Neural Systems for Spelling? New Insights into the Role of Rules and Memory in Spelling from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. (2007) (36)
From gesture to symbol : the relationship between form and meaning in the acquisition of personal pronouns in American sign language (1983) (32)
Visual Sonority Modulates Infants’ Attraction to Sign Language (2018) (31)
Exploring Cognitive Functions in Babies, Children & Adults with Near Infrared Spectroscopy. (2009) (31)
Age of Bilingual Exposure Is Related to the Contribution of Phonological and Semantic Knowledge to Successful Reading Development. (2018) (29)
Discourse structure in American sign language conversations (or, how to know a conversation when you see one) (1983) (26)
The Transition from Gesture to Symbol in American Sign Language (1990) (20)
Multimodal Dialogue Management for Multiparty Interaction with Infants (2018) (20)
Bilingualism yields language-specific plasticity in left hemisphere's circuitry for learning to read in young children (2017) (19)
Words in the bilingual brain: an fNIRS brain imaging investigation of lexical processing in sign-speech bimodal bilinguals (2014) (15)
“One glove does not fit all” in bilingual reading acquisition: Using the age of first bilingual language exposure to understand optimal contexts for reading success (2015) (14)
“Language” in the Prelinguistic Child (2013) (13)
Educational Neuroscience: New Discoveries from Bilingual Brains, Scientific Brains, and the Educated Mind. (2009) (8)
The Educated Brain: Cortical images of early language and phonetic development using near infrared spectroscopy (2008) (5)
On the biological, environmental and neurogenetic factors determining early language acquisition : Evidence from signed and spoken languages (1998) (4)
Can a Virtual Human Facilitate Language Learning in a Young Baby? (2019) (4)
By Hand or By Tongue: Common Cerebral Blood Flow Activation During Language Processing in Signed and Spoken Languages (1998) (4)
Can a Signing Virtual Human Engage a Baby's Attention? (2019) (4)
Revolutions in the Science of Learning: A New View from a New Center--Visual Language and Visual Learning. (2012) (3)
Comparing two-way bilingual instruction programs: Is it best to teach reading in both languages at the same time or in sequence? (2009) (2)
EFFECTS OF SES ON LITERACY DEVELOPMENT OF DEAF SIGNING BILINGUALS (2015) (2)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1984) (0)
Contents of volume (2004) (0)
13 Cortical images of early language and phonetic development using near infrared spectroscopy (2007) (0)
Thermal infrared imaging reveals that 6-12 month-old babies show different autonomic response to interaction with robot and avatar (2020) (0)
Assessment of autonomic response in 6–12-month-old babies during the interaction with robot and avatar by means of thermal infrared imaging (2022) (0)
Erratum to volume 7 (1979) (0)
Signing behavior in apes: A critical review*r** (2001) (0)
Benefits of Childhood Music Training on Learning a Second Language (2007) (0)
Contents for volume 27 (1987) (0)
Semantic hyperpriming in dementia of the Alzheimer's type : a distributed representation approach (1996) (0)
Number 4421 Can an Ape Create a Sentence ? (2005) (0)

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