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SUBMITTER: Romeo RR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5945324 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Romeo Rachel R RR Leonard Julia A JA Robinson Sydney T ST West Martin R MR Mackey Allyson P AP Rowe Meredith L ML Gabrieli John D E JDE
Psychological science 20180214 5
Children's early language exposure impacts their later linguistic skills, cognitive abilities, and academic achievement, and large disparities in language exposure are associated with family socioeconomic status (SES). However, there is little evidence about the neural mechanisms underlying the relation between language experience and linguistic and cognitive development. Here, language experience was measured from home audio recordings of 36 SES-diverse 4- to 6-year-old children. During a story ...[more]