Brain structural correlates of complex sentence comprehension in children.

ABSTRACT: Prior structural imaging studies found initial evidence for the link between structural gray matter changes and the development of language performance in children. However, previous studies generally only focused on sentence comprehension. Therefore, little is known about the relationship between structural properties of brain regions relevant to sentence processing and more specific cognitive abilities underlying complex sentence comprehension. In this study, whole-brain magnetic resonance images from 59 children between 5 and 8 years were assessed. Scores on a standardized sentence comprehension test determined grammatical proficiency of our participants. A confirmatory factory analysis corroborated a grammar-relevant and a verbal working memory-relevant factor underlying the measured p

SUBMITTER: Fengler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4710708 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature