Neural Tracking in Infancy Predicts Language Development in Children With and Without Family History of Autism.

ABSTRACT: During speech processing, neural activity in non-autistic adults and infants tracks the speech envelope. Recent research in adults indicates that this neural tracking relates to linguistic knowledge and may be reduced in autism. Such reduced tracking, if present already in infancy, could impede language development. In the current study, we focused on children with a family history of autism, who often show a delay in first language acquisition. We investigated whether differences in tracking of sung nursery rhymes during infancy relate to language development and autism symptoms in childhood. We assessed speech-brain coherence at either 10 or 14 months of age in a total of 22 infants with high likelihood of autism due to family history and 19 infants without family history of autism. We a

SUBMITTER: Menn KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10158647 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature