Effects of development and English activities on the meaning-related ERPs for Japanese sentences in preschool children

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  • Suzuki Yuika
    Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University RISTEX , Japan Science and Technology Agency
  • Shibata Hiroshi
    Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Fukumitsu Yuichiro
    Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University RISTEX , Japan Science and Technology Agency
  • Koizumi Masatoshi
    Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University RISTEX , Japan Science and Technology Agency
  • Gyoba Jiro
    Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University RISTEX , Japan Science and Technology Agency
  • Hagiwara Hiroko
    RISTEX , Japan Science and Technology Agency Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Other Title
  • 日本語意味処理に関わるERPの幼児期における発達的変化と英語活動の影響

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We longitudinally investigated the effects of development and activities in non-native language (English) on the ERPs in the first- and second- year preschool native speakers of Japanese children during listening to semantically congruent and incongruent Japanese sentences. The N400s were observed in both age groups. The latency of N400 was significantly longer in the younger than in the older children. The N400 was distributed relatively over the left hemisphere in the younger children, while it distributed relatively over the right hemisphere in the older children. The meaning-related late positive component (LPC) was observed only in the older children. For the group with intensive English activities, the N400 distributed over the scalp more broadly in the younger children but it had shorter latency in the older children in comparison with the children of the non-intensive group. These results suggest that the time course and the scalp distribution for the semantic processing of sentences in native language in preschoolers alter depending on the development and activities in non-native language.

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  • CRID
    1390282680653833728
  • NII Article ID
    130005036255
  • DOI
    10.14875/cogpsy.2008.0.117.0
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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    Disallowed

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