Using magnetoencephalography to examine word recognition, lateralization, and future language skills in 14-month-old infants.

ABSTRACT: Word learning is a significant milestone in language acquisition. The second year of life marks a period of dramatic advances in infants' expressive and receptive word-processing abilities. Studies show that in adulthood, language processing is left-hemisphere dominant. However, adults learning a second language activate right-hemisphere brain functions. In infancy, acquisition of a first language involves recruitment of bilateral brain networks, and strong left-hemisphere dominance emerges by the third year. In the current study we focus on 14-month-old infants in the earliest stages of word learning using infant magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain imagining to characterize neural activity in response to familiar and unfamiliar words. Specifically, we examine the relationship between right

SUBMITTER: Bosseler AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7773883 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature