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This study found that in 9- to 10-year-old children, a specific brain region (left IFG pars opercularis) shows specialization for syntax, supporting its role in grammatical processing during language comprehension.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Prior research has debated the neural separability of syntax and semantics.
  • Previous studies in younger children (5-8 years) using fMRI and MVPA detected semantic but not syntactic specialization.
  • This gap necessitates investigating older children with developed morpho-syntactic skills.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if older children exhibit specialized brain regions for syntactic processing.
  • To determine the neural correlates of syntactic versus semantic information processing in 9- to 10-year-old children.
  • To test the hypothesis of a core syntactic region in the brain.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was employed to measure brain activity.
  • Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) was used to analyze brain activation patterns.
  • Sixty-four 9- to 10-year-old children participated, undergoing the same experimental design as previous studies.

Main Results:

  • The left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) pars opercularis demonstrated sensitivity to syntactic information exclusively.
  • The left superior temporal gyrus (STG), left middle temporal gyrus (MTG), and IFG pars triangularis were sensitive to both semantic and syntactic information.
  • No distinct specialization for syntax was found in the STG, MTG, or IFG pars triangularis.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support the hypothesis that the left IFG pars opercularis is a core region for syntactic processing.
  • The results suggest a lexicalized view of syntax, where semantically sensitive areas also play a role in syntactic processing.
  • This indicates that syntactic and semantic processing may not be fully separable in the developing brain.