Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-765
Authors: Altvater-Mackensen, Nicole
Grossmann, Tobias
Title: Modality-independent recruitment of inferior frontal cortex during speech processing in human infants
Online publication date: 11-Dec-2018
Year of first publication: 2018
Language: english
Abstract: Despite increasing interest in the development of audiovisual speech perception in infancy, the underlying mechanisms and neural processes are still only poorly understood. In addition to regions in temporal cortex associated with speech processing and multimodal integration, such as superior temporal sulcus, left inferior frontal cortex (IFC) has been suggested to be critically involved in mapping information from different modalities during speech perception. To further illuminate the role of IFC during infant language learning and speech perception, the current study examined the processing of auditory, visual and audiovisual speech in 6-month-old infants using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Our results revealed that infants recruit speech-sensitive regions in frontal cortex including IFC regardless of whether they processed unimodal or multimodal speech. We argue that IFC may play an important role in associating multimodal speech information during the early steps of language learning.
DDC: 150 Psychologie
150 Psychology
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department: FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
Place: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-765
URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-586852
Version: Published version
Publication type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Information on rights of use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Journal: Developmental cognitive neuroscience
34
Pages or article number: 130
138
Publisher: Elsevier
Publisher place: Amsterdam u.a.
Issue date: 2018
ISSN: 1878-9307
1878-9293
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.10.002
Publisher DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.10.002
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