NDLI: Preschoolers' brains rely on semantic cues prior to the mastery of syntax during sentence comprehension

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Wu, Chiao-yi Kodjo, Vissiennon Friederici, Angela D. Brauer, Jens
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Sentence comprehension requires the integration of both syntactic and semantic information, the acquisition of which seems to have different trajectories in the developing brain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined the neural correlates underlying syntactic and semantic processing during auditory sentence comprehension as well as its development in preschool children by manipulating case marking and animacy hierarchy cues, respectively. A functional segregation was observed within Broca's area in the left inferior frontal gyrus for adults, where the pars opercularis was involved in syntactic processing and the pars triangularis in semantic processing. By contrast, five-year-old children sensitive to animacy hierarchy cues showed diffuse activation for semantic processing in the left inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortices. While no main effect of case marking was found in the left fronto-temporal language network, children with better syntactic skills showed greater neural responses for syntactically complex sentences, most prominently in the posterior superior temporal cortex. The current study provides both behavioral and neural evidence that five-year-old children compared to adults rely more on semantic information than on syntactic cues during sentence comprehension, but with the development of syntactic abilities, their brain activation in the left fronto-temporal network increases for syntactic processing.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.036
Ending Page	266
Page Count	11
Starting Page	256
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10959572
e-ISSN	10959572
Journal	Neuroimage
Volume Number	126
Language	English
Publisher	Academic Press
Publisher Date	2016-02-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Academic Press
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neurology Cognitive Neuroscience

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