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  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

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  • The spoken language network develops early in life.
  • Reading acquisition is a key cultural practice influencing cognitive development.
  • Understanding how reading interacts with the innate language network is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of age and reading proficiency on the developing spoken language network.
  • To identify brain regions affected by reading instruction in children.
  • To explore the interplay between biological language predispositions and cultural learning.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used in a slow event-related design.
  • Participants included 6- and 9-year-old children.
  • Children listened to native and foreign language sentences.

Main Results:

  • A stable left-dominant organization of peri-sylvian language areas was observed.
  • One year of reading instruction enhanced activation in phonological and sentence integration regions.
  • Nine-year-olds with 3 years of reading practice showed top-down activation in the left inferior temporal cortex when listening to their native language.

Conclusions:

  • Reading acquisition significantly modifies the neural basis of language.
  • The brain's innate spoken language network adapts to incorporate reading skills.
  • Cultural learning, like reading, integrates with biological constraints to shape language processing.