Increases in language lateralization in normal children as observed using magnetoencephalography  

Oleh:

Ressel, Volker ; Wilke, Marko ; Lidzba, Karen ; Lutzenberger, Werner ; Krageloh-Mann, Ingeborg

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 106 no. 3 (2008), page 167-176.
Topik: Brain development; Children; Hemispheric dominance; Language development; Language lateralization; Magnetoencephalography
Fulltext: 106_03_Ressel.pdf (661.38KB)

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Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies investigating hemispheric dominance for language have shown that hemispheric specialization increases with age. We employed magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate these effects as a function of normal development. In sum, 22 healthy children aged 7–16 years were investigated using two language tasks: a verb-generation (VG) task and a vowel-identification (VI) task. Significant hemispheric differences were found for both tasks in cerebral language areas using oscillatory MEG spectral analyses, confirming the MEG’s ability to detect hemispheric specialization for language in children. Additionally, a significant increase of this lateralization as a function of age was observed for both tasks. As performance in the VI task showed no correlation with age, this increase seems to be unrelated to performance. These results confirm an increase in hemispheric specialization as a function of normal brain maturation.

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