Brain Measures of Toddlers' Shape Recognition Predict Language and Cognitive Skills at 6-7 Years

While a number of studies have found that an improvement in object shape recognition is associated with language growth in infants and toddlers, no published studies have investigated the longitudinal relation between early shape recognition, and language abilities in later childhood. An electrophys...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 10; no. AUG; p. 1945
Main Authors Borgström, Kristina, Torkildsen, Janne von Koss, Sahlén, Birgitta, Lindgren, Magnus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 2019
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ERP
Language development
N400
Psychology
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Psykologi
Psykologi (exklusive tillämpad psykologi)
Samhällsvetenskap
Shape bias
Shape recognition
Social Sciences
shape bias
ERP
N400
shape recognition
language development
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Summary:While a number of studies have found that an improvement in object shape recognition is associated with language growth in infants and toddlers, no published studies have investigated the longitudinal relation between early shape recognition, and language abilities in later childhood. An electrophysiological measure of semantic processing (the N400) was used to assess shape recognition and general object recognition in a naming context in 20-month-olds. The measures of shape recognition strongly predicted language and cognitive abilities at 6-7 years even after controlling for toddler vocabulary size. The electrophysiological measures of general object recognition were not related to future language or cognitive abilities. These results suggest that early shape recognition abilities may play a role in language acquisition and influence even long-term language outcomes.
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Edited by: Ilaria Grazzani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Reviewed by: Eliza L. Nelson, Florida International University, United States; Chiara Cantiani, Eugenio Medea (IRCCS), Italy
This article was submitted to Developmental Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01945