The resulting prospective, longitudinal studies demonstrated that differences in infant discrimination of rapid auditory cues (a critical skill for decoding language) were strongly and reliably related to differences in later language comprehension and production.[6][7] At the Infancy Studies Laboratory, Benasich's research, involving more than 1000 children over fifteen years, has continued to focus on neural underpinnings of cognitive and language development as well as the development of temporally-bounded sensory information processing (shown to be a predictor of language impairment and dyslexia in older children).[8] Her research has shown that the ability to perform fine-grained acoustic analyses in the tens of milliseconds time range in early infancy is critical to the decoding of the speech stream and the subsequent establishment of phonemic maps that support later language development.[6][9][5] Currently, the Benasich lab is studying the evolution of infant brain waves (and oscillations) as infants process the critical timing cues important for the construction of prelinguistic acoustic maps that support language acquisition.[10][11] Pilot studies suggest that behavioral intervention in young infants can support and enhance language mapping and rapid auditory processing abilities.[12][13][14]