Oscillatory gamma activity mediates the pathway from socioeconomic status to language acquisition in infancy

C Cantiani, C Piazza, G Mornati, M Molteni… - Infant Behavior and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The predictable path to child language acquisition is largely constrained by
both brain maturation and environmental experience. The synchronized activity of large …

Reduced frontal gamma power at 24 months is associated with better expressive language in toddlers at risk for autism

CL Wilkinson, AR Levin, LJ Gabard‐Durnam… - Autism …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Frontal gamma power has been associated with early language development in typically
developing toddlers, and gamma band abnormalities have been observed in individuals …

Resting frontal gamma power at 16, 24 and 36 months predicts individual differences in language and cognition at 4 and 5 years

Z Gou, N Choudhury, AA Benasich - Behavioural brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
Gamma activity has been linked to a variety of different cognitive processes and exists in
both transient and persistent forms. Across studies, different brain regions have been …

Early cognitive and language skills are linked to resting frontal gamma power across the first 3 years

AA Benasich, Z Gou, N Choudhury, KD Harris - Behavioural brain research, 2008 - Elsevier
High-frequency cortical activity in humans and animals has been linked to a wide variety of
higher cognitive processes. This research suggests that specific changes in neuronal …

Dynamics of spontaneous alpha activity correlate with language ability in young children

EYL Kwok, JO Cardy, BL Allman, P Allen… - Behavioural brain …, 2019 - Elsevier
Early childhood is a period of tremendous growth in both language ability and brain
maturation. To understand the dynamic interplay between neural activity and spoken …

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] Reduced left-lateralized pattern of event-related EEG oscillations in infants at familial risk for language and learning impairment

C Cantiani, S Ortiz-Mantilla, V Riva, C Piazza… - Neuroimage …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to rapidly discriminate successive auditory stimuli within tens-of-milliseconds is
crucial for speech and language development, particularly in the first year of life. This skill …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental changes in resting gamma power from age three to adulthood

A Tierney, DL Strait, S O'Connell… - … : official journal of the …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The brain's activity at rest changes dramatically as it develops. Resting oscillatory power
within delta and theta bands, for example, decreases steadily between childhood and late …

The development of brain rhythms at rest and its impact on vocabulary acquisition

X Meng, C Sun, B Du, L Liu, Y Zhang… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A long‐standing question in developmental science is how the neurodevelopment of the
brain influences cognitive functions. Here, we examined the developmental change of …

Development of Gamma Oscillation during Sentence Processing in Early Adolescence: Insights into the Maturation of Semantic Processing

MH Behboudi, S Castro, P Chalamalasetty, MJ Maguire - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Children's ability to retrieve word meanings and incorporate them into sentences, along with
the neural structures that support these skills, continues to evolve throughout adolescence …