Functional organization of the language network in three- and six-year-old children.

ABSTRACT: The organization of the language network undergoes continuous changes during development as children learn to understand sentences. In the present study, functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral measures were utilized to investigate functional activation and functional connectivity (FC) in three-year-old (3yo) and six-year-old (6yo) children during sentence comprehension. Transitive German sentences varying the word order (subject-initial and object-initial) with case marking were presented auditorily. We selected children who were capable of processing the subject-initial sentences above chance level accuracy from each age group to ensure that we were tapping real comprehension. Both age groups showed a main effect of word order in the left posterior superior temporal gyrus (p

SUBMITTER: Vissiennon K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5407357 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature