Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language
© 2020, The Author(s). Language provides a rich source of information about other people’s thoughts and feelings. Consequently, delayed access to language may influence conceptual development in Theory of Mind (ToM). We use functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral tasks to study ToM deve...
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| author | Richardson, Hilary Koster-Hale, Jorie Caselli, Naomi Magid, Rachel Benedict, Rachel Olson, Halie Pyers, Jennie Saxe, Rebecca |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Richardson, Hilary Koster-Hale, Jorie Caselli, Naomi Magid, Rachel Benedict, Rachel Olson, Halie Pyers, Jennie Saxe, Rebecca |
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| description | © 2020, The Author(s). Language provides a rich source of information about other people’s thoughts and feelings. Consequently, delayed access to language may influence conceptual development in Theory of Mind (ToM). We use functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral tasks to study ToM development in child (n = 33, 4–12 years old) and adult (n = 36) fluent signers of American Sign Language (ASL), and characterize neural ToM responses during ASL and movie-viewing tasks. Participants include deaf children whose first exposure to ASL was delayed up to 7 years (n = 12). Neural responses to ToM stories (specifically, selectivity of the right temporo-parietal junction) in these children resembles responses previously observed in young children, who have similar linguistic experience, rather than those in age-matched native-signing children, who have similar biological maturation. Early linguistic experience may facilitate ToM development, via the development of a selective brain region for ToM. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1353242023-12-13T15:46:03Z Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language Richardson, Hilary Koster-Hale, Jorie Caselli, Naomi Magid, Rachel Benedict, Rachel Olson, Halie Pyers, Jennie Saxe, Rebecca Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences © 2020, The Author(s). Language provides a rich source of information about other people’s thoughts and feelings. Consequently, delayed access to language may influence conceptual development in Theory of Mind (ToM). We use functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral tasks to study ToM development in child (n = 33, 4–12 years old) and adult (n = 36) fluent signers of American Sign Language (ASL), and characterize neural ToM responses during ASL and movie-viewing tasks. Participants include deaf children whose first exposure to ASL was delayed up to 7 years (n = 12). Neural responses to ToM stories (specifically, selectivity of the right temporo-parietal junction) in these children resembles responses previously observed in young children, who have similar linguistic experience, rather than those in age-matched native-signing children, who have similar biological maturation. Early linguistic experience may facilitate ToM development, via the development of a selective brain region for ToM. 2021-10-27T20:22:58Z 2021-10-27T20:22:58Z 2020 2021-03-19T14:20:46Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135324 en 10.1038/S41467-020-17004-Y Nature Communications Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Nature |
| spellingShingle | Richardson, Hilary Koster-Hale, Jorie Caselli, Naomi Magid, Rachel Benedict, Rachel Olson, Halie Pyers, Jennie Saxe, Rebecca Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language |
| title | Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language |
| title_full | Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language |
| title_fullStr | Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language |
| title_short | Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language |
| title_sort | reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135324 |
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