Functional Neuroanatomy of Gesture-Speech Integration in Children Varies with Individual Differences in Gesture Processing

Autor/inn/en	Demir-Lira, Özlem Ece; Asaridou, Salomi S.; Raja Beharelle, Anjali; Holt, Anna E.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Small, Steven L.
Titel	Functional Neuroanatomy of Gesture-Speech Integration in Children Varies with Individual Differences in Gesture Processing
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 21 (2018) 5, (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.12648
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Neurology; Biology; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Children; Cognitive Processes; Speech Communication; Anatomy; Individual Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Neurologie; Biologie; Child; Kind; Kinder; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Anatomie; Individueller Unterschied
Abstract	Gesture is an integral part of children's communicative repertoire. However, little is known about the neurobiology of speech and gesture integration in the developing brain. We investigated how 8- to 10-year-old children processed gesture that was essential to understanding a set of narratives. We asked whether the functional neuroanatomy of gesture-speech integration varies as a function of (1) the content of speech, and/or (2) individual differences in how gesture is processed. When gestures provided missing information not present in the speech (i.e., disambiguating gesture; e.g., "pet" + flapping palms = bird), the presence of gesture led to increased activity in inferior frontal gyri, the right middle temporal gyrus, and the left superior temporal gyrus, compared to when gesture provided redundant information (i.e., reinforcing gesture; e.g., "bird" + flapping palms = bird). This pattern of activation was found only in children who were able to successfully integrate gesture and speech behaviorally, as indicated by their performance on post-test story comprehension questions. Children who did not glean meaning from gesture did not show differential activation across the two conditions. Our results suggest that the brain activation pattern for gesture-speech integration in children overlaps with--but is broader than--the pattern in adults performing the same task. Overall, our results provide a possible neurobiological mechanism that could underlie children's increasing ability to integrate gesture and speech over childhood, and account for individual differences in that integration. (As Provided).
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