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Her research focuses on the development of language and speech and how language information is stored in the brain. Kuhl's innovative research has played a major role in demonstrating how early exposure to language alters the mechanisms of perception, changing a person's ability to hear certain distinctions in speech. This work also shows that vision and hearing also play a role in processing language information both in early infancy and adulthood. Working with infants from a variety of human cultures, Kuhl and her colleagues have shown how babies' early auditory experiences play a critical role in the acquisition of language during the first year of life. This communication is unconsciously used by people of all ages, even small children, when they talk to infants.