Infant low-frequency EEG cortical power, cortical tracking and phase-amplitude coupling predicts language a year later

A Attaheri, ÁN Choisdealbha, S Rocha, P Brusini… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Cortical signals have been shown to track acoustic and linguistic properties of continuous
speech. This phenomenon has been measured in both children and adults, reflecting …

[HTML][HTML] Delta-and theta-band cortical tracking and phase-amplitude coupling to sung speech by infants

A Attaheri, ÁN Choisdealbha, GM Di Liberto, S Rocha… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The amplitude envelope of speech carries crucial low-frequency acoustic information that
assists linguistic decoding at multiple time scales. Neurophysiological signals are known to …

Atypical cortical encoding of speech identifies children with Dyslexia versus Developmental Language Disorder

J Araújo, BD Simons, V Peter, K Mandke… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Slow cortical oscillations play a crucial role in processing the speech envelope, which is
perceived atypically by children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and …

Associations between EEG power and coherence with cognition and early precursors of speech and language development across the first months of life

H Bradley, BA Smith, R Xiao - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The neural processes underpinning cognition and language development in infancy are of
great interest. We investigated EEG power and coherence in infancy, as a reflection of …

Atypical low-frequency cortical encoding of speech identifies children with developmental dyslexia

J Araújo, BD Simons, V Peter, K Mandke… - Frontiers in Human …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Slow cortical oscillations play a crucial role in processing the speech amplitude envelope,
which is perceived atypically by children with developmental dyslexia. Here we use …

Infants' neural oscillatory processing of theta-rate speech patterns exceeds adults'

V Leong, E Byrne, K Clackson, N Harte, S Lam… - BioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
During their early years, infants use the temporal statistics of the speech signal to boot-strap
language learning, but the neural mechanisms that facilitate this temporal analysis are …

Cortical tracking of sung speech in adults vs infants: A developmental analysis

A Attaheri, D Panayiotou, A Phillips… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Here we duplicate a neural tracking paradigm, previously published with infants (aged 4 to
11 months), with adult participants, in order to explore potential developmental similarities …

Does electrophysiological maturation shape language acquisition?

KH Menn, C Männel, L Meyer - … on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Infants master temporal patterns of their native language at a developmental trajectory from
slow to fast: Shortly after birth, they recognize the slow acoustic modulations specific to their …

[HTML][HTML] Natural infant-directed speech facilitates neural tracking of prosody

KH Menn, C Michel, L Meyer, S Hoehl, C Männel - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Infants prefer to be addressed with infant-directed speech (IDS). IDS benefits language
acquisition through amplified low-frequency amplitude modulations. It has been reported …

[HTML][HTML] What changes in neural oscillations can reveal about developmental cognitive neuroscience: Language development as a case in point

MJ Maguire, AD Abel - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
EEG is a primary method for studying temporally precise neuronal processes across the
lifespan. Most of this work focuses on event related potentials (ERPs); however, using time …