| Presentation | 2008-08-08 A NIRS study investigating the effects of English experience on preschoolers' brain activities during listening to story narrations Suguru MARUYAMA, Akitsugu KONNO, Souta HIDAKA, Hiroshi SHIBATA, Michiyo KURIHARA, Akihiro TANAKA, Masatoshi KOIZUMI, Jiro GYOBA, Hiroko HAGIWARA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | We measured the preschoolers' brain activities during listening to a story in Japanese (the first language), English (the second language), and Chinese (the unexposed foreign language) by using near-infrared spectroscopy. The preschoolers of 3-4 and 4-5 years old with lower exposure to English showed no significant brain activity regardless of the language they heard. In contrast, the preschoolers of 4-5 and 5-6 years old with higher exposure to English revealed significantly more brain activity for Japanese and English stories than for Chinese. These results suggest that the higher exposure to English facilitates the brain activity responsible for second language processing. |
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| Keyword(in English) | English experience / language acquisition / measurement of brain activity / NIRS |
| Paper # | TL2008-19 |
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| Conference Date | 2008/8/1(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | A NIRS study investigating the effects of English experience on preschoolers' brain activities during listening to story narrations |
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| Keyword(1) | English experience |
| Keyword(2) | language acquisition |
| Keyword(3) | measurement of brain activity |
| Keyword(4) | NIRS |
| 1st Author's Name | Suguru MARUYAMA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:RISTEX, Japan Science and Technology Agency() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Akitsugu KONNO |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:RISTEX, Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 3rd Author's Name | Souta HIDAKA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University |
| 4th Author's Name | Hiroshi SHIBATA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University |
| 5th Author's Name | Michiyo KURIHARA |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | School of Asia 21, Kokushikan University |
| 6th Author's Name | Akihiro TANAKA |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Tilburg University |
| 7th Author's Name | Masatoshi KOIZUMI |
| 7th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:RISTEX, Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 8th Author's Name | Jiro GYOBA |
| 8th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:RISTEX, Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 9th Author's Name | Hiroko HAGIWARA |
| 9th Author's Affiliation | RISTEX, Japan Science and Technology Agency:Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
| Date | 2008-08-08 |
| Paper # | TL2008-19 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | 184 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 4 |
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