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  Seven-year-olds recall non-adjacent dependencies after overnight retention

Schaadt, G., Paul, M., Muralikrishnan, R., Männel, C., & Friederici, A. D. (2019). Seven-year-olds recall non-adjacent dependencies after overnight retention. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/670257.

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Schaadt, Gesa1, 2, Author           
Paul, Mariella1, 3, Author           
Muralikrishnan, R.4, Author           
Männel, Claudia1, 2, Author           
Friederici, Angela D.1, Author           
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1Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society, ou_634551              
2Department Neurology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society, Leipzig, DE, ou_634549              
3Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, DE, ou_persistent22              
4Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main, DE, ou_persistent22              

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Free keywords: non-adjacent dependencies, ERPs, recollection, children, development
 Abstract: Becoming a successful speaker depends on acquiring and learning grammatical dependencies between neighboring and non-neighboring linguistic elements (non-adjacent dependencies; NADs). Previous studies have demonstrated children’s and adults’ ability to distinguish NADs from NAD violations right after familiarization. However, demonstrating
NAD-recollection and processing after retention is crucial to demonstrate NAD-learning. We tested 7-year-old’s NAD-learning in a natural, non-native language on one day and NADrecollection on the next day by means of event-related potentials (ERPs). Our results revealed
ERPs with a more positive amplitude to NAD violations than correct NADs after familiarization on day one, but ERPs with a more negative amplitude to NAD violations on day two. This change from more positive to more negative ERPs to NAD violations possibly indicates that children’s representations of NADs changed during an overnight retention period, potentially associated with children’s NAD-learning. Indeed, both ERP patterns (i.e., day one: positive, day two: negative) were related to stronger behavioral improvement (i.e., more correct answers on day two compared to day one) in a grammaticality judgment task from day one to day two. We suggest these findings to indicate that children showing more correct answers at day two, compared to day one, successfully built associative representations of NADs on day one and then successfully strengthened these associations during overnight retention, revealing NAD-recollection on day two. The present results suggest that 7-year-olds readily track NADs in a natural, non-native language and are able to
show recollection after a retention period involving sleep, providing strong evidence of NAD recollection.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2020-03-052019-06-14
 Publication Status: Published online
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1101/670257
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