Journal
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Volume 127, Issue 3, Pages 356-365Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.10.009
Keywords
Child; fMRI; Brain development; Speech; Reading; Language comprehension
Funding
- INSERM
- CNRS
- College de France
- University Paris 11
- NERF
- Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation
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To examine the influence of age and reading proficiency on the development of the spoken language network, we tested 6- and 9-years-old children listening to native and foreign sentences in a slow event-related fMRI paradigm. We observed a stable organization of the peri-sylvian areas during this time period with a left dominance in the superior temporal sulcus and inferior frontal region. A year of reading instruction was nevertheless sufficient to increase activation in regions involved in phonological representations (posterior superior temporal region) and sentence integration (temporal pole and pars orbitals). A top-down activation of the left inferior temporal cortex surrounding the visual word form area, was also observed but only in 9 year-olds (3 years of reading practice) listening to their native language. These results emphasize how a successful cultural practice, reading, slots in the biological constraints of the innate spoken language network. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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