Phonological and Semantic Specialization in 9- to 10-Year-Old Children During Auditory Word Processing.

ABSTRACT: One of the core features of brain maturation is functional specialization. Previous research has found that 7- to 8-year-old children start to specialize in both the temporal and frontal lobes. However, as children continue to develop their phonological and semantic skills rapidly until approximately 10 years old, it remained unclear whether any changes in specialization later in childhood would be detected. Thus, the goal of the current study was to examine phonological and semantic specialization in 9- to 10-year-old children during auditory word processing. Sixty-one children were included in the analysis. They were asked to perform a sound judgment task and a meaning judgment task, each with both hard and easy conditions to examine parametric effects. Consistent with previous results f

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10205156 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature