Critical period regulation across multiple timescales

RK Reh, BG Dias, CA Nelson III… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Brain plasticity is dynamically regulated across the life span, peaking during windows of
early life. Typically assessed in the physiological range of milliseconds (real time), these …

The ontogeny of the cortical language network

MA Skeide, AD Friederici - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Language-processing functions follow heterogeneous developmental trajectories.
The human embryo can already distinguish vowels in utero, but grammatical complexity is …

[HTML][HTML] How the visual aspects can be crucial in reading acquisition: The intriguing case of crowding and developmental dyslexia

S Gori, A Facoetti - Journal of vision, 2015 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder (about
10% of children across cultures) characterized by severe difficulties in learning to read …

Level of attention to motherese speech as an early marker of autism spectrum disorder

K Pierce, TH Wen, J Zahiri, C Andreason… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Caregivers have long captured the attention of their infants by speaking in
motherese, a playful speech style characterized by heightened affect. Reduced attention to …

Musical intervention enhances infants' neural processing of temporal structure in music and speech

TC Zhao, PK Kuhl - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Individuals with music training in early childhood show enhanced processing of musical
sounds, an effect that generalizes to speech processing. However, the conclusions drawn …

Auditory processing in noise: A preschool biomarker for literacy

T White-Schwoch, K Woodruff Carr, EC Thompson… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Learning to read is a fundamental developmental milestone, and achieving reading
competency has lifelong consequences. Although literacy development proceeds smoothly …

Unraveling the biology of auditory learning: A cognitive–sensorimotor–reward framework

N Kraus, T White-Schwoch - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
The auditory system is stunning in its capacity for change: a single neuron can modulate its
tuning in minutes. Here we articulate a conceptual framework to understand the biology of …

[HTML][HTML] Associations among family socioeconomic status, EEG power at birth, and cognitive skills during infancy

NH Brito, WP Fifer, MM Myers, AJ Elliott… - Developmental cognitive …, 2016 - Elsevier
Past research has demonstrated links between cortical activity, measured via EEG power,
and cognitive processes during infancy. In a separate line of research, family socioeconomic …

The promise of educational neuroscience: Comment on Bowers (2016).

JDE Gabrieli - 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Bowers (2016) argues that there are practical and principled problems with how educational
neuroscience may contribute to education, including lack of direct influences on teaching in …

Three-and four-dimensional mapping of speech and language in patients with epilepsy

Y Nakai, J Jeong, EC Brown, R Rothermel, K Kojima… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We have provided 3-D and 4D mapping of speech and language function based upon the
results of direct cortical stimulation and event-related modulation of electrocorticography …