Dorsal and ventral pathways in language development

Bräuer, Jens; Anwander, Alfred; Perani, Daniela; Friederici, Angela D.

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2013.03.001

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“…Direct connections between the language-related areas in the left frontal and temporal cortices are sustained dorsally through the arcuate fasciculus (AF) and ventrally by paths running through the extreme capsule (Saur et al, 2008;Brauer et al, 2011Brauer et al, , 2013. The dorsal connection is also assured indirectly through the parietal lobe with shorter segments (Catani et al, 2005): an anterior segment connecting the premotor and inferior frontal regions with the IPL and a posterior segment connecting inferior parietal and temporal cortices (Figure 2, right).…”

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“…In contrast, the dorsal pathway follows different developmental courses, with two subparts maturing at different rates. Whereas the dorsal connections reaching the premotor cortex are functional at birth, the terminations of the dorsal pathway reaching the posterior portion of Broca's area (BA 44) are still underdeveloped (Perani et al, 2011) and are not fully myelinated at the age of seven (Brauer et al, 2011(Brauer et al, , 2013. Adult studies on the learning of new languages indicate that whereas the audio-motor subpart is related to word learning (López-Barroso et al, 2013), the processing of non-adjacent elements relies on the latter subpart running from frontal BA 44 .…”

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Components of the Language-Ready Brain

Boeckx¹,

Benítez‐Burraco²

2016

Frontiers Research Topics

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Section: Brain Development Of the Attention And Language Networkmentioning

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Components of the Language-Ready Brain

Boeckx¹,

Benítez‐Burraco²

2016

Frontiers Research Topics

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“…Previous studies have shown that frontal and temporal regions of the language network appear anatomically connected already in the first postnatal weeks (41)(42)(43). Moreover, these regions show time-lagged cross-correlations in response to passive listening to speech stimuli (44) and exhibit phase synchronization particularly in the left hemisphere (45).…”

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Brain regions and functional interactions supporting early word recognition in the face of input variability

Benavides-Varela

Šiugždaitė

Gómez

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Perception and cognition in infants have been traditionally investigated using habituation paradigms, assuming that babies' memories in laboratory contexts are best constructed after numerous repetitions of the very same stimulus in the absence of interference. A crucial, yet open, question regards how babies deal with stimuli experienced in a fashion similar to everyday learning situationsnamely, in the presence of interfering stimuli. To address this question, we used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to test 40 healthy newborns on their ability to encode words presented in concomitance with other words. The results evidenced a habituation-like hemodynamic response during encoding in the left-frontal region, which was associated with a progressive decrement of the functional connections between this region and the left-temporal, right-temporal, and right-parietal regions. In a recognition test phase, a characteristic neural signature of recognition recruited first the right-frontal region and subsequently the right-parietal ones. Connections originating from the right-temporal regions to these areas emerged when newborns listened to the familiar word in the test phase. These findings suggest a neural specialization at birth characterized by the lateralization of memory functions: the interplay between temporal and left-frontal regions during encoding and between temporo-parietal and right-frontal regions during recognition of speech sounds. Most critically, the results show that newborns are capable of retaining the sound of specific words despite hearing other stimuli during encoding. Thus, habituation designs that include various items may be as effective for studying early memory as repeated presentation of a single word.newborns | language | habituation | memory | fNIRS effective connectivity H abituation, namely the decreased response to repeated presentations of stimuli, has been widely used to investigate infant cognition. Both behavioral (1) and neuroimaging (2, 3) habituation paradigms are regularly implemented for assessing a wide range of mental processes including categorization, object representation, and memory in very young babies. Despite this long tradition, it remains elusive the extent to which the results of habituation studies (which often consist of massive repetition of a single stimulus) can inform our understanding of memory functions in everyday-like situations-that is, in the presence of various stimuli.Developmental studies in the language domain have uncovered basic perceptual (4-6), discrimination (7,8), and mnemonic capacities (9-14) in newborns and fetuses, supporting the hypothesis that memories for sounds begin to be established very early in life. However, infants' memory for specific words seems to be highly vulnerable to interference. Newborns are capable of remembering a single word that they have heard in a classic habituation paradigm (i.e., consecutive/massed repetitions) and after a silent pause but readily forget the word if interfering words are introduced in the...

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“…Vladmir Komárek, M. Kynčl, J. Šanda, M. Vránová, R. Vydrová-Recent research showed the importance of language-associated pathways during brain development as well as in the presurgical assessment of children with refractory epilepsy, namely with epileptogenic zone in language-related regions [153][154][155][156]. Currently, language studies agree on the concept of two interacting pathways connecting the language-relevant regions in the temporal and the frontal cortices.…”

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Third International Congress on Epilepsy, Brain, and Mind: Part 2

Rektor¹,

Schachter²,

Arya³

et al. 2015

Epilepsy & Behavior

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*Corresponding author at: 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 702, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Tel.: +1 617 643 3835. sschacht@bidmc.harvard.edu (S.C. Schachter). Conflict of interestNone of the authors have any conflicts of interest to disclose. HHS Public Access Author Manuscript Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript Author ManuscriptEpilepsyis both a disease of the brain and the mind. Here, we present the first of two papers with extended summaries of selected presentations of the Third International Congress on Epilepsy, Brain and Mind (April 3-5, 2014; Brno, Czech Republic). Epilepsy in history and the arts and its relationships with religion were discussed, as were overviews of epilepsy and relevant aspects of social cognition, handedness, accelerated forgetting and autobiographical amnesia, and large-scale brain networks.

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Dorsal and ventral pathways in language development

Cited by 174 publications

References 59 publications

Components of the Language-Ready Brain

Components of the Language-Ready Brain

Brain regions and functional interactions supporting early word recognition in the face of input variability

Third International Congress on Epilepsy, Brain, and Mind: Part 2

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