ERPs Reveal the Temporal Dynamics of Phonological Processing across Typical Development

Introduction Converging evidence from behavioral, neuroimaging and computational modeling suggests that phonologically similar words compete during spoken word recognition (e.g., upon hearing the word cone, other words like comb, code, bone, and cane are also partly "activated"). [...]a significant relationship between skill measures and the N400 was observed, with larger cohort competition effects being associated with higher phonological and vocabulary skills (Figure 2).