Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development.

ABSTRACT: Neural auditory processing and prelinguistic communication build the foundation for later language development, but how these two are associated is not well known. The current study investigated how neural speech processing is associated with the level and development of prelinguistic skills in 102 infants. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) in 6-months-olds to assess the neural detection of a pseudoword (obligatory responses), as well as the neural discrimination of changes in the pseudoword (mismatch responses, MMRs). Prelinguistic skills were assessed at 6 and 12 months of age with a parental questionnaire (Infant-Toddler Checklist). The association between the ERPs and prelinguistic skills was examined using latent change score models, a method specifically constructed for lon

SUBMITTER: Kailaheimo-Lonnqvist L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7486617 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature