Trial reportDevelopmental psychology2023
Experience with pointing gestures facilitates infant vocabulary growth through enhancement of sensorimotor brain activity.
Trial report in Developmental psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Experience with pointing gestures facilitates infant vocabulary growth through enhancement of sensorimotor brain activity.Developmental psychology · 2023Trial
- A Mixed Longitudinal EEG Study of Sensorimotor Rhythm Modulation and Its Relationship with Language Development in Children Aged 3-10 Years.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- What electrodes can be used to measure mu rhythm (de)synchronization in the context of speech comprehension studies? An insight from theoretical analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Experience shapes functional connectivity during action observation in the first year of life.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Motor-Related Mu/Beta Rhythm in Older Adults: A Comprehensive Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Communicative and linguistic factors influencing language development at 30 months of age in preterm and full-term children: a longitudinal study using the CDI.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Advancing the RDoC initiative through the assessment of caregiver social processes.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Exposure to communicative gestures, through their parents' use of gestures, is associated with infants' language development. However, the mechanisms supporting this link are not fully understood. In adults, sensorimotor brain activity occurs while processing communicative stimuli, including both spoken language and gestures. Using electroencephalogram (EEG) mu rhythm desynchronization (mu ERD), a marker of sensorimotor activity, we examined whether experimental manipulation of infants' exposure to gestures would affect language development, and specifically whether such an effect would be mediated by changes in sensorimotor brain activity. Mu ERD was measured in 10- to 12-month-old infants (
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