Semantic organization of basic-level words in 20-month-olds: An ERP study

Torkildsen, Janne von Koss; Sannerud, Tuva; Syversen, Gro; Thormodsen, Rune; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Moen, Inger; Smith, Lars; Lindgren, Magnus

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“…In some of these studies, the N400 effect has been obtained over the midline or right central-parietal recording sites (e.g., Friedrich & Friederici, 2005c, 2006R€ am€ a et al, 2013), while in others, the left hemisphere contributed more to the effect than the right (e.g., Friedrich & Friederici, 2004, 2005aTorkildsen et al, 2006;Torkildsen, Syversen, Simonsen, Moen, & Lindgren, 2007). The language-related ERPs have also shown to be more broadly distributed in younger than in older children (Friedrich & Friederici, 2005c;Mills, Coffey-Corina, & Neville, 1993, 1997.…”

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Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying semantic priming during language acquisition

Sirri

Rama

2015

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying semantic priming during language acquisition

Sirri

Rama

2015

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…The studies suggest that the size of the vocabulary influences the presence and absence of the N400 effect and that the right lateralization is dependent on spoken language production skills, suggesting that such distribution could reflect maturation of the lexical-semantic processing 5,12,22,28,35 .…”

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“…Such components are classified under their polarity, negative -N -and positive -Pfluctuation, and latency after starting the stimulus (e.g., N100, N400, P600) 9,10 . The N400 component -a negative wave that occurs between 250 and 500 milliseconds after starting the stimulus, and it peaks around 400ms -was described for the first time in 1980 by Kutas and Hillyard 11,12 while evaluating the reading of incongruous semantically words regarding the context of the sentence presented 7 . Currently, one can see that the N400 reflects at least two aspects: (1) the semantic integration to the context; (2) the access to information of the long term memory 7 .…”

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“…Currently, one can see that the N400 reflects at least two aspects: (1) the semantic integration to the context; (2) the access to information of the long term memory 7 . Several studies have investigated the N400 effect in children and adults 2,7,[13][14][15] , and the overall finding indicates that the latency and amplitude of the wave decline over age [12][13][14][15][16] and that some factors -the frequency of the words, the context and the position of the word in the sentence -can influence the amplitude of the N400 effect 8 .…”

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“…Therefore, this effect can be used as methodological tool to study specific aspects of language development, because it subsidizes the investigation of subtle differences in the information processing that cannot be detected by means of behavioral measures both in typical and risk or communication disorder populations [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] . The N400 effect enables us to address psycholinguistics issues in different stages of development, which are not feasible to be analyzed by other types of measurements 8 .…”

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This study consists of a literature review about the semantic processing in children 0 to 6 years of age and an N400 data analysis. Twenty-four studies that met the eligibility criteria were found. Most studies aimed to investigate and characterize the electrophysiological patterns of younger children as compared to those found in older children and adults. A large variability of employed experimental tasks was found, showing that there are various investigation alternatives in this perspective. In general, the joint analysis of the results pointed out that despite the different objectives, types of experimental tasks and degrees of language skills (i.e., typical development or different conditions), age was a relevant factor in establishing the presence or not of the N400 effect and its lateralization. When present, the N400 effect showed that the latency and amplitude of the wave decline according to age. However, the variability of procedures can affect the degree of control and the data reliability. For further studies, the development of a standard protocol to investigate the semantic processing by means of the N400 effect data in different populations is an important step and a strong recommendation for the area.

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