Syntactic development and its interplay with word processing and working memory in preschoolers’ brain: An fNIRS longitudinal study

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Gepubliceerd in:NeuroImage vol. 305 (Jan 2025)
Hoofdauteur: Yan, Dongsu
Andere auteurs: Fang, Tongfu, He, Wei, Xu, Min
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100 1 |a Yan, Dongsu  |u School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China 
245 1 |a Syntactic development and its interplay with word processing and working memory in preschoolers’ brain: An fNIRS longitudinal study 
260 |b Elsevier Limited  |c Jan 2025 
513 |a Journal Article 
520 3 |a Understanding how children acquire syntactic structures from a limited set of grammatical rules and use them creatively to convey meaning has been a longstanding interest for scientific communities. Previous studies on syntactic development have revealed its close correlation with the development of vocabulary and working memory. Our study sought to elucidate how the relations between syntactic processing, word processing, and working memory were instantiated in the brain, and how earlier neural patterns might predict language abilities one year later. We employed functional near-infrared spectroscopy to examine among preschool children (N=50, M <ce:inf>age</ce:inf>=61.5 months) the neural activation associated with processing sentences of varying syntactic complexities, as well as tasks assessing word comprehension and working memory. The results revealed greater brain activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) for syntactically complex as compared to simple sentences, and the activation magnitude was correlated with working memory. There was also a link between neural activity for sentence comprehension and word comprehension in bilateral superior temporal regions (STG). Moreover, the inter-regional and inter-hemispheric connectivity of IFG and STG/MTG could successfully predict children's future language comprehension one year later. The findings provide new insights into how the brain supports syntactic development and its interplay with word processing and working memory. 
653 |a Language 
653 |a Syntax 
653 |a Memory 
653 |a Children 
653 |a Hypotheses 
653 |a Brain research 
653 |a Infrared spectroscopy 
653 |a Frontal gyrus 
653 |a Children & youth 
653 |a Information processing 
653 |a Cognitive ability 
653 |a Longitudinal studies 
653 |a Neural networks 
653 |a Semantics 
653 |a Preschool children 
700 1 |a Fang, Tongfu  |u School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China 
700 1 |a He, Wei  |u School of Studies in Fundamental Education, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, China 
700 1 |a Xu, Min  |u School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China 
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