Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development
Neural auditory processing and prelinguistic communication build the foundation for later language development, but how these two are associated is not well known. The current study investigated how neural speech processing is associated with the level and development of prelinguistic skills in 102...
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| author | Linda Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist Paula Virtala Yana Fandakova Eino Partanen Paavo H.T. Leppänen Anja Thiede Teija Kujala |
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| description | Neural auditory processing and prelinguistic communication build the foundation for later language development, but how these two are associated is not well known. The current study investigated how neural speech processing is associated with the level and development of prelinguistic skills in 102 infants. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) in 6-months-olds to assess the neural detection of a pseudoword (obligatory responses), as well as the neural discrimination of changes in the pseudoword (mismatch responses, MMRs). Prelinguistic skills were assessed at 6 and 12 months of age with a parental questionnaire (Infant-Toddler Checklist). The association between the ERPs and prelinguistic skills was examined using latent change score models, a method specifically constructed for longitudinal analyses and explicitly modeling intra-individual change. The results show that a large obligatory P1 at 6 months of age predicted strong improvement in prelinguistic skills between 6 and 12 months of age. The MMR to a frequency change was associated with the concurrent level of prelinguistic skills, but not with the improvement of the skills. Overall, our results highlight the strong association between ERPs and prelinguistic skills, possibly offering opportunities for early detection of atypical linguistic and communicative development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e6acf9359e264000bf24b195bfd615972022-12-21T18:55:24ZengElsevierDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience1878-92932020-10-0145100831Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic developmentLinda Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist0Paula Virtala1Yana Fandakova2Eino Partanen3Paavo H.T. Leppänen4Anja Thiede5Teija Kujala6Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290, Helsinki, Finland; Corresponding author at: Cognitive Brain Research Unit, P.O. Box 21, 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland.Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290, Helsinki, FinlandCenter for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94 14195, Berlin, GermanyCognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290, Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Mattilanniemi 6, 40014, Jyväskylä, FinlandCognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290, Helsinki, FinlandCognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290, Helsinki, FinlandNeural auditory processing and prelinguistic communication build the foundation for later language development, but how these two are associated is not well known. The current study investigated how neural speech processing is associated with the level and development of prelinguistic skills in 102 infants. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) in 6-months-olds to assess the neural detection of a pseudoword (obligatory responses), as well as the neural discrimination of changes in the pseudoword (mismatch responses, MMRs). Prelinguistic skills were assessed at 6 and 12 months of age with a parental questionnaire (Infant-Toddler Checklist). The association between the ERPs and prelinguistic skills was examined using latent change score models, a method specifically constructed for longitudinal analyses and explicitly modeling intra-individual change. The results show that a large obligatory P1 at 6 months of age predicted strong improvement in prelinguistic skills between 6 and 12 months of age. The MMR to a frequency change was associated with the concurrent level of prelinguistic skills, but not with the improvement of the skills. Overall, our results highlight the strong association between ERPs and prelinguistic skills, possibly offering opportunities for early detection of atypical linguistic and communicative development.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929320300797Event-related potentialsPrelinguistic skillsInfantsLatent change score model |
| spellingShingle | Linda Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist Paula Virtala Yana Fandakova Eino Partanen Paavo H.T. Leppänen Anja Thiede Teija Kujala Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Event-related potentials Prelinguistic skills Infants Latent change score model |
| title | Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development |
| title_full | Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development |
| title_fullStr | Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development |
| title_short | Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development |
| title_sort | infant event related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development |
| topic | Event-related potentials Prelinguistic skills Infants Latent change score model |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929320300797 |
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