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Occipital responses to spoken language in blind children are maximal by age 4 and unrelated to Braille learning

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? Occipital responses to spoken language in blind children are maximal by age 4 and not related to Braille learning. → Bedny 2015

Evidence

Bedny 2015

Bedny, M., H. Richardson, and R. Saxe. (2015). "Visual" Cortex Responds to Spoken Language in Blind Children. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0634-15.2015

q3 · i? · associational · r2

In the same developmental neuroimaging sample of blind children, occipital responses to spoken language "were maximal by age 4 and were not related to Braille learning." No effect size is printed for this relation.

"By contrast, occipital responses to spoken language were maximal by age 4 and were not related to Braille learning."

Discussion

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type claim
id occipital-language-response-maximal-by-age-4
title Occipital responses to spoken language in blind children are maximal by age 4 and unrelated to Braille learning
description Occipital responses to spoken language in blind children are maximal by age 4 and unrelated to Braille learning
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2015
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-16
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sources 1 — bedny-2015

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