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Silvia Benavides-Varela
Researcher at University of Padua
Publications - 52
Citations - 983
Silvia Benavides-Varela is an academic researcher from University of Padua. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 44 publications receiving 747 citations. Previous affiliations of Silvia Benavides-Varela include International School for Advanced Studies & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Consonants and vowels: different roles in early language acquisition.
TL;DR: It is shown that 12-month-old infants rely more on the consonantal tier when identifying words, but are better at extracting and generalizing repetition-based srtuctures over the vocalic tier, and this suggests that basic speech categories are assigned to different learning mechanisms that sustain early language acquisition.
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Acoustic markers of prominence influence infants' and adults' segmentation of speech sequences.
TL;DR: It is proposed that these perceptual biases help infants and adults find linguistic units in the continuous speech stream while the bias for grouping based on pitch appears early in development and biases for durational grouping might rely on more extensive linguistic experience.
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Newborn’s brain activity signals the origin of word memories
TL;DR: Investigation of the type of information that newborns retain when they hear words and the brain structures that support word-sound recognition suggests that right frontal areas may support the recognition of speech sequences from the very first stages of language acquisition.
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Language universals at birth
David M. Gómez,Iris Berent,Silvia Benavides-Varela,Ricardo A. H. Bion,Luigi Cattarossi,Marina Nespor,Jacques Mehler +6 more
TL;DR: Near-infrared spectroscopy was used to examine whether the brain activity of neonates is sensitive to a putatively universal phonological constraint, and suggested that humans possess early, experience-independent, linguistic biases concerning syllable structure that shape language perception and acquisition.
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Effectiveness of digital-based interventions for children with mathematical learning difficulties : A meta-analysis
Silvia Benavides-Varela,Claudio Zandonella Callegher,Barbara Fagiolini,Irene Leo,Gianmarco Altoè,Daniela Lucangeli +5 more
TL;DR: It was indicated that digital-based interventions generally improved mathematical performance, though there was a significant heterogeneity across studies, and there was no evidence that videogames offer additional advantages with respect todigital-based drilling and tutoring approaches.