Traces of vocabulary acquisition in the brain: Evidence from covert object naming

Ellis, Andrew W.; Burani, Cristina; Izura, Cristina; Bromiley, A.; Venneri, Annalena

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.07.040

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“…The observation by Ellis et al (2006) that posterior occipital activity is also modulated by AoA during object naming was unexpected. It has, however, been argued that AoA may have effects at multiple loci within the object and word processing systems, and that one of those loci may be the perceptual analysis of visual object features (Brysbaert and Ghyselinck, 2006;Hernandez and Li, 2007;Johnston and Barry, 2005;Navarette et al, 2013).…”

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“…We know relatively little, however, about how such factors modulate neural processing. fMRI studies have helped to identify the brain regions whose activity levels are influenced by different properties of objects and words (e.g., Carreiras et al, 2006;de Zubicaray et al, 2012;Ellis et al, 2006;Graves et al, 2007;Zhuang et al, 2011), but exactly how and when those factors exert their influence remains poorly understood.…”

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“…Urooj et al / NeuroImage 87 (2014) 252-264 253 observed over and above the contributions of other factors such as object familiarity and word frequency (Ghyselinck et al, 2004;Izura et al, 2011;Pérez, 2007). In the only previous neuroimaging study of AoA effects in object recognition, Ellis et al (2006) presented pictures of early and late acquired objects to participants for covert naming. Functional MRI identified two regions where BOLD responses were stronger to early-than late-acquired objects -the left temporal pole and visual cortex at the occipital pole.…”

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“…Previous studies of word and face perception have found such subdivision of the frequency spectrum useful for capturing different aspects of perceptual and cognitive processing (Barca et al, 2011;Lee et al, 2010;Wheat et al, 2010). Virtual electrodes were then positioned at the location of peak responses in the whole-brain MEG data closest to the peaks in the occipital and anterior temporal regions where Ellis et al (2006) found the modulation of BOLD responses by AoA. New beamformer solutions were generated for the two regions of interest and timefrequency plots computed using a longer time period (− 200 to 1200 ms) and a wider range of frequencies (0-50 Hz) than the whole-brain analyses.…”

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“…On the basis of the Ellis et al (2006) findings we expected neuromagnetic activity in occipital cortex to be modulated by AoA (stronger to early-than late-acquired items). If the initial analysis of the visual features of objects is influenced by AoA (Catling and Johnston, 2009;Catling et al, 2008), then the initial evoked response to visual objects might be modulated by AoA.…”

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Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University's research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. Single copies of full items can be reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given, as well as a hyperlink and/or URL to the original metadata page. The content must not be changed in any way. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder. The full policy is available online: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/policies.html This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.)Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition The age of acquisition (AoA) of objects and their names is a powerful determinant of processing speed in adulthood, with early-acquired objects being recognized and named faster than late-acquired objects. Previous research using fMRI . Traces of vocabulary acquisition in the brain: evidence from covert object naming. NeuroImage 33,[958][959][960][961][962][963][964][965][966][967][968] found that AoA modulated the strength of BOLD responses in both occipital and left anterior temporal cortex during object naming. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to explore in more detail the nature of the influence of AoA on activity in those two regions. Covert object naming recruited a network within the left hemisphere that is familiar from previous research, including visual, left occipito-temporal, anterior temporal and inferior frontal regions. Region of interest (ROI) analyses found that occipital cortex generated a rapid evoked response (~ 75-200 ms at 0-40 Hz) that peaked at 95 ms but was not modulated by AoA. That response was followed by a complex of later occipital responses that extended from ~ 300 to 850 ms and were stronger to early-than late-acquired items from ~ 325 to 675 ms at 10-20 Hz in the induced rather than the evoked component. Left anterior temporal cortex showed an evoked response that occurred significantly later than the first occipital response (~ 100-400 ms at 0-10 Hz with a peak at 191 ms) and was stronger to early-than late-acquired items from ~ 100 to 300 ms at 2-12 Hz. A later anterior temporal response from ~ 550 to 1050 ms at 5-20 Hz was not modulated by AoA. The results indicate that the initial analysis of object forms in visual cortex is not influenced by AoA. A fastforward sweep of activation from occipital and left anterior temporal cortex t...

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Although attention and early associative learning in preverbal children is predominantly driven by rapid eye-movements in response to moving visual stimuli and sounds/words (e.g., associating the word “bottle” with the object), the literature examining the role of visual attention and memory in ongoing vocabulary development across childhood is limited. Thus, this systematic review and meta-analysis examined the association between visual memory and vocabulary development, including moderators such as age and task selection, in neurotypical children aged 2-to-12 years, from the brain-based perspective of cognitive neuroscience. Visual memory tasks were classified according to the visual characteristics of the stimuli and the neural networks known to preferentially process such information, including consideration of the distinction between the ventral visual stream (processing more static visuo-perceptual details, such as form or colour) and the more dynamic dorsal visual stream (processing spatial temporal action-driven information). Final classifications included spatio-temporal span tasks, visuo-perceptual or spatial concurrent array tasks, and executive judgment tasks. Visuo-perceptual concurrent array tasks, reliant on ventral stream processing, were moderately associated with vocabulary, while tasks measuring spatio-temporal spans, associated with dorsal stream processing, and executive judgment tasks (central executive), showed only weak correlations with vocabulary. These findings have important implications for health professionals and researchers interested in language, as they advocate for the development of more targeted language learning interventions that include specific and relevant aspects of visual processing and memory, such as ventral stream visuo-perceptual details (i.e., shape or colour).

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Traces of vocabulary acquisition in the brain: Evidence from covert object naming

Cited by 49 publications

References 71 publications

Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition

Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition

The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions

A Role for Visual Memory in Vocabulary Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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