While the child is completing these tasks, the mother will be asked to fill out a few questionnaires, and her voice will be recorded for our in-scanner task stimuli.
In-scanner task performance was not associated with network measures when controlling for age.
Third, we adjusted task difficulty according to developmental ability, to reduce variability of in-scanner task performance and effort.
In light of the well-established nature of the out-of-scanner task (Takeuchi and Hulse 1993), these findings support the validity of our in-scanner AP paradigm.
The association of age of onset, duration of epilepsy, in-scanner task performance and general verbal ability to factor scores was investigated using Pearson's r correlation coefficient.
Findings are inconsistent and conflicting however, most likely due to use of different language tasks and inconsistent control over in-scanner task performance and language proficiency.
We also found evidence to suggest healthy children with more proficient language regardless of age and in-scanner task performance—show increased activation throughout the ventral network.
As reviewed by Dehaene and Cohen (2011), the type of in-scanner task used in an experiment can massively influence activation patterns.
Although the in-scanner task and the picture description task required different input and output systems, the activation in the dACC reflects increased task difficulty regardless of whether the specific language task emphasizes speech comprehension or production.
In creating the fMRI paradigm, we adopted a subtractive design intended to isolate the effects of variation in emotional attributes of interest against matched baseline conditions with fixed attributes and thereby to identify brain regions specifically processing the relevant attribute without requiring an in-scanner task.
