Infants at high and low likelihood for autism show different EEG developmental trajectories in speech tracking and statistical learning
Michel Godel, Ana Fló, Lucas Benjamin, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Marie Schaer, Jean-Paul Noel, Huan Luo · 2026
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Description
Michel Godel and six colleagues follow how infants at high and low likelihood of autism process speech sounds. Late babbling and first words often precede an autism diagnosis, hinting that early speech machinery differs. Their team recorded 83 brain wave sessions from 44 infants between two and twenty two months old. Babies heard streams of three syllable words from many voices, and brain tracking of syllables and words was measured alongside a word recognition test.
High likelihood infants tracked syllables more weakly, and that weakness tracked with weaker verbal scores at twenty months. Their pattern finding itself stayed intact, though their brain response to new words ran smaller. Voice variety briefly disrupted word splitting near twelve months only in low likelihood babies. Godel and the team favor long, passive brain measures for catching such early forks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Michel Godel, Ana Fló, Lucas Benjamin, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Marie Schaer, Jean-Paul Noel, Huan Luo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |