Convergent and Divergent fMRI Responses in Children and Adults to Increasing Language Production Demands.

ABSTRACT: In adults, patterns of neural activation associated with perhaps the most basic language skill--overt object naming--are extensively modulated by the psycholinguistic and visual complexity of the stimuli. Do children's brains react similarly when confronted with increasing processing demands, or they solve this problem in a different way? Here we scanned 37 children aged 7-13 and 19 young adults who performed a well-normed picture-naming task with 3 levels of difficulty. While neural organization for naming was largely similar in childhood and adulthood, adults had greater activation in all naming conditions over inferior temporal gyri and superior temporal gyri/supramarginal gyri. Manipulating naming complexity affected adults and children quite differently: neural activation, especially

SUBMITTER: Krishnan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4585486 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature