ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2020
So young, yet so mature? Electrophysiological and vascular correlates of phonotactic processing in 18-month-olds.
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- The impact of prenatal and postnatal acoustic experience to the discrimination of native versus non-native linguistic rules in the brain: insights from combined electrophysiological and vascular signals in 3-month-olds.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Neurovascular decoupling and compensatory network recruitment during speech perception in aging: evidence from EEG-fNIRS.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Longitudinal fNIRS and EEG metrics of habituation and novelty detection are correlated in 1-18-month-old infants.NeuroImage · 2023Article
- Speech Segmentation and Cross-Situational Word Learning in Parallel.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023Article
- Combining statistics: the role of phonotactics on cross-situational word learning.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2022Article
- Investigation of functional near-infrared spectroscopy signal quality and development of the hemodynamic phase correlation signal.Neurophotonics · 2022Article
- Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event-related potentials.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The present study investigated neural correlates of implicit phonotactic processing in 18-month-old children that just reached an important step in language development: the vocabulary spurt. Pseudowords, either phonotactically legal or illegal with respect to their native language, were acoustically presented to monolingually German raised infants. Neural activity was simultaneously assessed by means of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The former method excellently tracks fast processing mechanisms, whereas the latter reveals brain areas recruited. Results of the present study indicate that 18-month-olds recognize the linguistic properties of their native language based on phonotactics. This manifested in an increased N400 for legal compared to illegal pseudowords in the EEG conforming to adult-like mechanisms. Unfortunately, fNIRS findings did not support this discrimination ability. Possible methodological and brain maturational reasons might explain this null finding. This study provides evidence for the advantage of a multi-methodological approach in order to get a clear picture on neural language development.
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