In a study conducted with a sample of monolingual Spanish-speakers made up of 171 children divided into 5 age groups (6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, and 14-15 years), Matute et al. Also, toddlers in this age group begin to combine words to create sentences and to use language to ask for information. Taken together, all these neuroimaging studies contribute to a better understanding of the neurological bases of language development across the life span [105], particularly the development of word recall as measured by verbal fluency and confrontation naming tasks. We can conjecture, therefore, that there may be some variability in the decline in lexical retrieval or perhaps that the different experimental approaches using distinct tasks with a variety of study population account for some of the variation in results. More recently, the analysis of structural connectivity with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) (white matter wiring) has given anatomical support to functional brain models of cognition [7]. Luk et al. Myelinated fibers are the presumed substrate for greater brain connectivity, for acquiring new abilities, and for increases in learning [46, 64]. Though a certain degree of functional lateralization has been observed in the human brain from birth, the assumption that lateralization increases with age means that the lateralization index can be used as a measure of brain maturation (e.g., [69]). By age 6, children present well-developed language skills. A significant difference of maturation in the STS favors the right side. For example, Brown [73] reported that the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon increases with age, reflecting a certain degree of naming deficit (anomia), while Ardila [74] described decreases in lexical access associated with age as measured by the vocabulary subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Table 3 presents their results by year range. Damage in Brodmann area 44 (and in the anterior insula) has been associated with speech apraxia [102, 103], whereas pathologies of Brodmann area 45 have been related to extrasylvian (transcortical) motor aphasia [104]. [60]. These authors suggest a process of simultaneous maturation of the temporofrontal language network, since both comprehension and production regions showed very similar myelination progress during the first 3 years of life. The ventral superior temporal sulcus (STS) is less mature than the inferior frontal area. After the first year, word comprehension begins to increase rapidly, though at this age a clear dissociation exists between language expression and comprehension; that is, childrens ability to understand language significantly surpasses their capacity to produce it [28]. Sauzon et al. The aim of this paper is to analyze the linguistic-brain associations that occur from birth through senescence.
This organization of language in the brain is not exactly the same in children and older adults, and some significant developmental changes have been well documented. Results revealed consistent improvements in performance by grade, with higher scores on semantic fluency tasks than phonemic fluency tasks at every point. During the second and third years of life, the ability to not only perceive but actually produce native speech sounds increases significantly, so that by the age of 4-5 years phoneme repertory development doubles, and in the range of 6-to-8 years the typical childs phonological repertoire is complete, regardless of her/his phonological language system [22, 26]. Verb generation task and vowel-identification. Finally, a subsample of 326 subjects was reevaluated 6 years after that. [52] used diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging to test for age-related WM changes in 42 adolescents (aged 13.521 years). Briefly, normal adults present greater activation in the left inferior frontal and lateral temporal cortex during both VF and CN. Leroy and colleagues [36] quantified the degree of maturation in the linguistic network in fourteen 1-to-4-month-old infants using MRI spatial resolution and found that the least mature perisylvian region was the ventral superior temporal sulcus (STS). Activation in the left prefrontal cortex and right cerebellum. For example, between 7 and 12 years of age, better syntactic skills are related to an increase in left inferior frontal gyrus activation and a decrease in right inferior frontal activation as measured by fMRI [41].
[39] reported the MLUw and MLUm of 136 monolingual, English-speaking children ranging in age from 2 years 6 months to 8 years 11 months. Brain activation during language tasks moves from bilateral (early in life) to unilateral (young adults) and then back to bilateral (senescence). At the same time, Sophie knows that sometimes struggles with language use can signify an underlying problem, and her patients will benefit from a diagnosis and treatment. The tremendous speed of language development observed by age 2 has been linked to structural changes in the neurons (such as the growth of axons and a larger number of dendrites) and upsurges in the myelination process that permit faster conduction. It is important to note that this is the age at which brain activation patterns during verbal generation are lateralized in the left hemisphere [58]. Courtesy Dr. Byron Bernal, Miami Childrens Hospital, Radiology Department. 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Also, the 5th-grade children had greater semantic and phonemic fluency than those in the 3rd grade, a finding associated with an increase in the number of clusters but not cluster size. The development of GM follows an inverted U pattern, with initial growth followed by a continuous decrease [62, 63]. In addition to behavioral dissimilarities between males and females, sexual differences in white and gray matter volume and brain functioning have been well documented [114116]. Verbal generation measured by VF tests and vocabulary size measured by naming tests are obviously correlated with some of the neuroanatomical and neurophysiological changes that occur in the brain during childhood and adolescence. 
As mentioned above, bilateral activation has been reported in children, but adolescents aged 13 manifest activation of the left hemisphere similar to that of adults when performing VF tasks [58]. Adults who use language more will be more developed in their linguistic capacities. The adult brain is therefore more capable of executive function, which includes planning, organizing and decision making related to language and communication. One of the things she has been thinking about is language development, or how language grows and changes, in adulthood. Use is intertwined with language development and maintenance, as well as motivation to continue acquiring linguistic skills. The first one, involved in lexical/semantic analysis, is associated with Wernickes area, while the second, located in the left posterior frontal lobe (Brocas area), is related to grammar (morphosyntax) and speech automatization (i.e., speech praxis) [3, 6]. Thus, Dehaene-Lambertz et al. Active vocabulary normally begins to develop early in the second year of life. Regions showing maturational increases, on the other hand, matured somewhat earlier, showing peak activity that was 50% adult-like by the age of 11.9 years and 75% adult-like by age 14.8. In contrast, the total volume of WM increases continuously (see Figure 2). In general, fMRI results show relatively consistent areas of activation during VF tasks. Different studies report slight variations in the areas of activation, which can be accounted for by variations in how the methods are applied and by individual differences in cognitive strategies. Also, significant increases in the left frontal lateralization for verb generation with advancing age beginning at age 5 have been reported using magnetoencephalography [42]. This review has attempted to elucidate the typical development of language in relation to typical brain development and to reach some conclusions drawn by integrating research from the fields of neuropsychology and neuroimaging. During this time, teaching at school awakens knowledge of the components of language at all levels of analysis: phonological, lexical, semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic. They used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify those brain regions that revealed statistically reliable, age-related effects. It includes findings from both developmental and adult studies, particularly those of interest to neuropsychology and the neuroimaging literature. [, Average Boston naming scores by age groups (adapted from Zec et al. Table 5 presents verbal fluency scores by age group according to different authors from studies of adult populations. [66] explored progressive and regressive developmental changes in the functional brain organization that underlies lexical control in 95 healthy individuals aged 732 years. Meanwhile, fMRI studies comparing the trajectory from childhood to adolescence have shown changes in brain activation during language production tasks (speaking) from bilateral towards increasingly lateralized representation in the prefrontal cortex (premotor areas) [55]. Particularly influential in this regard are two tests: CN (finding figure names), and VF (saying words that correspond to a semantic category (semantic condition) or that begin with a particular phoneme (phonemic condition)), which are useful diagnostic tools that can effectively identify word finding and language production defects in diverse neuropsychological conditions. 
Bickerton [4] emphasizes that symbolic units (lexicon) and syntax (grammar) are the only real novelties in human communication and the most salient of all elements in any adequate theory of language, while Chomsky [5] has made a similar distinction when referring to the conceptual (lexical) and computational (syntactic) aspects of language. Enrolling in a course lets you earn progress by passing quizzes and exams. The simultaneous use of two different languages has been seen to be associated with functional brain changes and different connectivity patterns. Activation of left Brocas area is observed. It seems then that formal education facilitates the development of language into a fully symbolic tool. More talkative children, for example, may have the opportunity to practice more language skills through increased verbal interaction. Using time series of three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging scans, Westerhausen and colleagues [72] showed that children aged 68 years whose callosal isthmus increased in thickness over the course of 2 years showed a decrease in interhemispheric information transfer, whereas children who exhibited a decrease in isthmus thickness showed an increase in information transfer. These authors suggest that the development of language representation in the brain reflects qualitative rather than simply quantitative changes and concluded that their results provide evidence of the increased neuroplasticity of language in this age group. [12]) have departed from the electrophysiological literature, questioned the exclusively innate cerebral organization of language, and postulated a more dynamic developmental process. Interestingly, in a 20-year longitudinal study, Connor et al. Both comprehension and production regions showed a very similar myelination course. Mohades et al. It is important to mention, however, that the proportion of this variance explained by gender is usually small [111, 112] and that in some reports the language advantage favors boys rather than girls [113]. [140] reported higher gray matter density in left inferior parietal regions in a group of Italian-English bilinguals relative to English monolinguals. Findings from the neuropsychological and neuroimaging literature are reviewed, and the relationship of language changes observable in human development and the corresponding brain maturation processes across age groups are examined. Two theories have been offered to account for the phenomenon of perceptual narrowing.
[. Also, connectivity during language listening evolves from interhemispheric connectivity in infants to the predominant connectivity in the left hemisphere during adulthood. This observation means that during aging some individuals present a rapid decline in cognition that eventually results in symptoms of dementia, while others maintain high cognitive test performance (successful aging).
{{courseNav.course.mDynamicIntFields.lessonCount}}, All Teacher Certification Test Prep Courses, What Is Language Acquisition? They recruited 18 healthy, right-handed participants (14 men, 4 women) for their study. In the same way that language production and comprehension can reveal brain development in the early stages of human life, language abilities continue to reflect cerebral changes throughout adulthood and into senescence. Create an account to start this course today. As observed in younger individuals, older participants across age groups also tend to perform better on semantic fluency tasks than phonemic fluency tasks. In summary, performance on word generation tasks appears to be related to increases in the activation of the left frontal and parietal cortex that reaches a peak around age 13 and to maturational decreases in other brain regions that achieve an adult-like condition between the ages of 13 and 16 years. 
Activation is seen on the foot of the motor primary area, Brocas and Wernickes areas during a task involving expressive and receptive language functions (discriminating correctness of sentences describing objects) in a right handed adolescent boy. At present, we lack sufficient evidence to determine which one of these neurofunctional explanations is correct or whether the two are contradictory or complementary. Use of blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal with fMRI may produce acceptable spatial resolution, and the magnetic fields changes utilized in MEG allow tracking of the neural activity with reasonable time resolution. We know that phonological abilities develop in a way that corresponds to the brains growing specialization in terms of recognizing native language phonemes [25]. Also, children with larger verbal memory capacity may repeat longer sentences, retain more words, and so develop a larger vocabulary. Rice et al. Adults also use language in a wide variety of ways, and this can impact their capacities with language as well. basic interpersonal communication, such as talking with friends and family members. In the Boston Naming Test (BNT) (an often-used neuropsychological measure of lexical knowledge), participants increased the number of correct answers as age and years of schooling increased.
The results of neuroimaging studies are congruent with the above observation, as they have shown that very early in life human language is predominantly processed by the left hemisphere. Verbal fluency means and (standard deviations) for children and adolescents. Based on their review, they concluded that there was a continuous decline in naming abilities that correlated inversely with age, since the results of the cross-sectional studies and the longitudinal analysis were similar. Semantic fluency is believed to be more automatic, as it relies on common rules of categorization, whereas phonemic tasks rely on higher-order cognitive functions. Copyright 2014 Mnica Rosselli et al.
Mnica Rosselli, Alfredo Ardila, Esmeralda Matute, Idaly Vlez-Uribe, "Language Development across the Life Span: A Neuropsychological/Neuroimaging Perspective", Neuroscience Journal, vol. This apparent difference in phonemic development between English and Spanish can probably be attributed to two main sources: (1) these studies focused only on the production of consonants (no vowels, see Tables 1 and 2) and (2) English has more phonemes (about 34) than Spanish (about 23). Left-lateralized brain regions (the superior temporal and angular gyri) were already active in infants. Those authors found that myelination in the classic language areas, that is, Brocas and Wernickes areas, reaches mature appearance by 18 months, which coincides with the age at which children begin to actively produce language and initiate grammatical development. By the age of 12 months, children in the 50th percentile produced fewer than 10 words but understood close to 40. Although some of the studies described in this review were longitudinal, most were of the cross-sectional type which limits the possibilities of generalizing their results. Language repetition ability in illiterate individuals is equivalent to that of schooled literates as long as real, high-frequency words are presented; however, when pseudowords are used, discrepancies become apparent [125, 128, 129]. In a meta-analysis of the brain/language fMRI literature conducted by Vigneau et al. 
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