Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has suggested that top-down sensory prediction facilitates, and may be necessary for, efficient transmission of information in the brain. Here we related infants' vocabulary development to the top-down sensory prediction indexed by occipital cortex activation to the unexpected absence of a visual stimulus previously paired with an auditory stimulus. The magnitude of the neural response to the unexpected omission of a visual stimulus was assessed at the age of 6 months with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and vocabulary scores were obtained using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI) when infants reached the age of 12 months and 18 months, respectively. Results indicated significant positive correlations between this predictive neural

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11956832 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature