{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Liu J"],"funding":["Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development","NICHD NIH HHS","NIDA NIH HHS","National Institute on Drug Abuse"],"pagination":["e13078"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8935986"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["24(4)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Word segmentation is a fundamental aspect of language learning, since identification of word boundaries in continuous speech must occur before the acquisition of word meanings can take place. We previously used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are less sensitive to statistical and speech cues that guide implicit word segmentation. However, little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying this process during infancy and how this may be associated with ASD risk. Here, we examined early neural signatures of language-related learning in 9-month-old infants at high (HR) and low familial risk (LR) for ASD. During natural sleep, infants underwent fMRI while passively listening to three speech streams containing strong statis"],"journal":["Developmental science"],"pubmed_title":["Lack of neural evidence for implicit language learning in 9-month-old infants at high risk for autism."],"pmcid":["PMC8935986"],"funding_grant_id":["T90 DA022768","F31 HD088102","P50 HD055784"],"pubmed_authors":["Liu J","Dapretto M","Tsang T","Jackson L","Jeste SS","Ponting C","Bookheimer SY"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Lack of neural evidence for implicit language learning in 9-month-old infants at high risk for autism.","description":"Word segmentation is a fundamental aspect of language learning, since identification of word boundaries in continuous speech must occur before the acquisition of word meanings can take place. We previously used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are less sensitive to statistical and speech cues that guide implicit word segmentation. However, little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying this process during infancy and how this may be associated with ASD risk. Here, we examined early neural signatures of language-related learning in 9-month-old infants at high (HR) and low familial risk (LR) for ASD. During natural sleep, infants underwent fMRI while passively listening to three speech streams containing strong statis","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Jul","modification":"2025-04-19T21:45:19.872Z","creation":"2025-04-19T21:45:19.872Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8935986","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33368921"],"doi":["10.1111/desc.13078"]}}