Infants’ Early Competence for Language and Symbols

Dehaene‐Lambertz, Ghislaine; Flo, A; Pena, M

doi:10.7551/mitpress/11970.003.0010

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Modelling non-specific linguistic variation in cognitive disorders

Hinzen¹,

Wiltschko

2022

J. Ling.

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Clinical linguistic diversity extends far beyond ‘specific language’ disorders, such as acquired aphasia or specific language impairment (SLI), to a large range of mental disorders that are not language-specific. As cognitive impairments are involved in the latter, models with an integrated approach to language and cognition can be useful for understanding and classifying the variation in question. The aim of this paper is to specify such a model, called the Bridge model, which views linguistic cognition as resting on two partially pre-linguistic pillars: (i) perceptual categorisation and (ii) social-communicative interaction. Grammar acting as a bridge crossing between them mediates the lexicalisation of perceptual categories and, based on these, new forms of social interaction and communication conveying thought structured by grammar. This model allows to conceptualise mental disorders as different ways in which this integrated linguistic-cognitive phenotype can deviate from its normal course. We illustrate our general model for the specific instance of language variation within autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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Modelling non-specific linguistic variation in cognitive disorders

Hinzen¹,

Wiltschko

2022

J. Ling.

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Infant functional connectivity fingerprints predict long-term language and pre-literacy outcomes

Ferradal

Sliva

et al. 2020

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Functional connectivity analyses can delineate brain organization in infancy, enabling the characterization of early brain characteristics associated with subsequent behavioral outcomes. Previous studies have identified specific functional networks of infant brains that underlie cognitive abilities and pathophysiology subsequently observed in toddlers. However, it is unknown whether and how functional networks emerging in infancy contribute to the development of higher-order complex functions of language and literacy. Employing a five-year longitudinal imaging project starting in infancy, the current study utilizes resting-state functional connectivity MRI to examine prospective associations between infant functional connectivity fingerprints (FCF) and subsequent school-age language and foundational literacy skills. Utilizing multivariate pattern analyses, we demonstrate that FCF patterns associated with language-related brain regions established during the first year of life are prospectively associated with oral language and phonological skills at a mean age of 6.5. Moreover, these longitudinal associations are preserved when key environmental influences are controlled for and are independent of emergent language abilities in infancy, suggesting early development of functional network characteristics in supporting the acquisition of high-order language and pre-literacy skills. Altogether, the current results highlight the importance of functional organization established in infancy as a neural scaffold underlying the protracted development of complex cognitive functions.

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Infants’ Early Competence for Language and Symbols

Cited by 2 publications

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Modelling non-specific linguistic variation in cognitive disorders

Modelling non-specific linguistic variation in cognitive disorders

Infant functional connectivity fingerprints predict long-term language and pre-literacy outcomes

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