Semantic and syntactic specialization during auditory sentence processing in 7-8-year-old children.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies indicate that adults show specialized syntactic and semantic processes in both the temporal and frontal lobes during language comprehension. Neuro-cognitive models of language development argue that this specialization appears earlier in the temporal than the frontal lobe. However, there is little evidence supporting this proposed progression. Our recently published study (Wang, Rice, & Booth, 2020), using multivoxel pattern analyses, detected that children as young as 5 to 6 years old exhibit specialization and integration in the temporal lobe, but not the frontal lobe. In the current study, we used the same approach to examine semantic and syntactic specialization in children ages 7 to 8 years old. We found support for semantic specialization in the left middle temporal

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8633078 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature