Infants’ neural speech discrimination predicts individual differences in grammar ability at 6 years of age and their risk of developing speech-language disorders | Zendy

T. Christina Zhao | Zendy; Olivia Boorom | Zendy; Patricia K. Kuhl | Zendy; Reyna L. Gordon | Zendy

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Infants’ neural speech discrimination predicts individual differences in grammar ability at 6 years of age and their risk of developing speech-language disorders

Author(s) -

T. Christina Zhao,

Olivia Boorom,

Patricia K. Kuhl,

Reyna L. Gordon

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

developmental cognitive neuroscience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.662

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1878-9307

pISSN - 1878-9293

DOI - 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100949

Subject(s) - psychology , grammar , spoken language , speech perception , population , language acquisition , affect (linguistics) , language development , linguistics , cognitive psychology , audiology , developmental psychology , communication , medicine , philosophy , mathematics education , environmental health , neuroscience , perception

Highlights • Infant neural processing of speech (11 months) predicted spoken grammar skills at 6 years.• Infant neural processing of speech also predicted later risk of developing speech language disorders.• Neural activity in prefrontal regions (not superior temporal) was the predictor.• These findings extended the Native Language Magnet Theory (NLM).

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