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Burman, Douglas D.; Minas, Taylor; Bolger, Donald J.; Booth, James R. – Brain and Language, 2013
Previous studies have shown that the "strength" of connectivity between regions can vary depending upon the cognitive demands of a task. In this study, the "location" of task-dependent connectivity from the primary visual cortex (V1) was examined in 43 children (ages 9-15) performing visual tasks; connectivity maxima were identified for a visual…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Children, Age Differences, Gender Differences
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Cho, Yong Won; Song, Hui-Jin; Lee, Jae Jun; Lee, Joo Hwa; Lee, Hui Joong; Yi, Sang Doe; Chang, Hyuk Won; Berl, Madison M.; Gaillard, William D.; Chang, Yongmin – Brain and Language, 2012
Older adults perform much like younger adults on language. This similar level of performance, however, may come about through different underlying brain processes. In the present study, we evaluated age-related differences in the brain areas outside the typical language areas among adults using a category decision task. Our results showed that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Age Differences, Language Processing, Decision Making
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Moore-Parks, Erin Nicole; Burns, Erin L.; Bazzill, Rebecca; Levy, Sarah; Posada, Valerie; Muller, Ralph-Axel – Brain and Language, 2010
Lexical-semantic knowledge is a core language component that undergoes prolonged development throughout childhood and is therefore highly amenable to developmental studies. Most previous lexical-semantic functional MRI (fMRI) studies have been limited to single-word or word-pair tasks, outside a sentence context. Our objective was to investigate…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Federmeier, Kara D.; Kutas, Marta; Schul, Rina – Brain and Language, 2010
During sentence comprehension, older adults are less likely than younger adults to predict features of likely upcoming words. A pair of experiments assessed whether such differences would extend to tasks with reduced working memory demands and time pressures. In Experiment 1, event-related brain potentials were measured as younger and older adults…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Cues, Prediction
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Berl, Madison M.; Duke, Elizabeth S.; Mayo, Jessica; Rosenberger, Lisa R.; Moore, Erin N.; VanMeter, John; Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Vaidya, Chandan J.; Gaillard, William Davis – Brain and Language, 2010
Listening and reading comprehension of paragraph-length material are considered higher-order language skills fundamental to social and academic functioning. Using ecologically relevant language stimuli that were matched for difficulty according to developmental level, we analyze the effects of task, age, neuropsychological skills, and post-task…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
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Ressel, Volker; Wilke, Marko; Lidzba, Karen; Lutzenberger, Werner; Krageloh-Mann, Ingeborg – Brain and Language, 2008
Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies investigating hemispheric dominance for language have shown that hemispheric specialization increases with age. We employed magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate these effects as a function of normal development. In sum, 22 healthy children aged 7-16 years were investigated using…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Specialization, Language Processing
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Plante, Elena; Holland, Scott K.; Schmithorst, Vince J. – Brain and Language, 2006
Prosodic information in the speech signal carries information about linguistic structure as well as emotional content. Although children are known to use prosodic information from infancy onward to assist linguistic decoding, the brain correlates of this skill in childhood have not yet been the subject of study. Brain activation associated with…
Descriptors: Intonation, Children, Correlation, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Sauzeon, H.; Lestage, P.; Raboutet, C.; N'Kaoua, B.; Claverie, B. – Brain and Language, 2004
Developmental changes in children's verbal fluency were explored in this study. One hundred and forty children aged from 7 to 16 completed four verbal fluency tasks, each with a different the production criterion (letter, sound, semantic, and free). The age differences were analyzed both in terms of number of words produced, and clustering,…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Semantics