Developmental aspects of language processing: fMRI of verbal fluency in children and adults.

We examined developmental differences, in location and extent of fMRI language activation maps, between adults and children while performing a semantic fluency task. We studied 29 adults and 16 children with echo planar imaging BOLD fMRI at 1.5 T using covert semantic verbal fluency (generation of words to categories compared to rest) using a block design.

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of left hemisphere language dominance in children.

Background: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive method of assessing language dominance in a pediatric population.

Objective: To determine the pattern of receptive language lateralization in healthy children.

Design: We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess an auditory language task in 11 children (7 girls, 4 boys; mean age, 8.