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ArticleImaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2025

Neural signatures of word learning during adult-child interactions.

Sara Mosteller, Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar, Sam Wass

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Article in Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Sara MostellerSchool of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Sobanawartiny WijeakumarSchool of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Sam WassSchool of Psychology, University of East London, London, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early language acquisition relies on the successful communication of specific word meanings when speaking or encoding labels. Here, we tested for evidence of this communication within the parallel functional neural activation that occurred for adults and children as unfamiliar objects were labelled by the caregiver. Measuring event-related hemodynamic responses with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) simultaneously recorded from both individuals, we compared cortical responses that were time-locked to spontaneous instances of object labelling during openly structured interactions. Most notably, children's responses differed between words learned and not learned in the right posterior temporal cortex, with relatively greater positive activation when children were not learning. The findings bear relevance to investigations of coordination between speakers and listeners during word-learning interactions.

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developmentfunctional near infrared spectroscopyhyperscanninglanguageword learning

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PMID40800783
PMCPMC12319735

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