Association between neural prosody discrimination and language abilities in toddlers: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Language delay affects near- and long-term social communication and learning in toddlers, and, an increasing number of experts pay attention to it. The development of prosody discrimination is one of the earliest stages of language development in which key skills for later stages are mastered. Therefore, analyzing the relationship between brain discrimination of speech prosody and language abilities may provide an objective basis for the diagnosis and intervention of language delay.

Methods

In this study, all cases(n = 241) were enrolled from a tertiary women's hospital, from 2021 to 2022. We used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to assess children's neural prosody discrimination abilities, and a Chinese communicative development inventory (CCDI) were

SUBMITTER: Guo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11241962 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature