The Use of Auditory Evoked Responses at One-Year-of-Age to Predict Language Skills at 3-Years

Abstract

Auditory evoked responses (AER) were recorded from scalp locations over both hemispheres of one-year-old infants in response to a series of computer synthesized vowel sounds. The infants were tested two years later to measure verbal ability and found to differ in language skills as measured by a standardized test. Multivariate analyses of the AER data identified regions of the brain wave recorded at one year of age which discriminated between the language performance levels of these groups of infants two years later.