Morphological and phonological processing in English monolingual, Chinese-English bilingual, and Spanish-English bilingual children: An fNIRS neuroimaging dataset

Xin Sun; Kehui Zhang; Rebecca Marks; Zachary Karas; Rachel Eggleston; Nia Nickerson; Chi-Lin Yu; Neelima Wagley; Xiaosu Hu; Valeria Caruso; Tai-Li Chou; Teresa Satterfield; Twila Tardif; Ioulia Kovelman

Data in Brief (Jun 2022)

Morphological and phonological processing in English monolingual, Chinese-English bilingual, and Spanish-English bilingual children: An fNIRS neuroimaging dataset

Xin Sun,
Kehui Zhang,
Rebecca Marks,
Zachary Karas,
Rachel Eggleston,
Nia Nickerson,
Chi-Lin Yu,
Neelima Wagley,
Xiaosu Hu,
Valeria Caruso,
Tai-Li Chou,
Teresa Satterfield,
Twila Tardif,
Ioulia Kovelman

Affiliations

Xin Sun: Corresponding author.; Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Kehui Zhang: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Rebecca Marks: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zachary Karas: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Rachel Eggleston: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Nia Nickerson: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Chi-Lin Yu: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Neelima Wagley: Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
Xiaosu Hu: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Valeria Caruso: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Tai-Li Chou: Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University
Teresa Satterfield: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Twila Tardif: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Ioulia Kovelman: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 42
p. 108048

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This article documents a functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) neuroimaging dataset deposited in Deep Blue Data. The dataset included neuroimaging and behavioral data from N = 343 children aged 5-11 with a diverse linguistic background, including children who are English monolingual, Chinese-English, and Spanish-English bilingual. Children completed phonological and morphological awareness tasks in each of their languages during fNIRS neuroimaging. They also completed a wide range of language and reading tasks. Parents filled in questionnaires to report children's demographic information as well as their home language and literacy backgrounds. The dataset is valuable for researchers in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience to further investigate questions such as the effects of bilingualism on children's neural basis for literacy development.

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ISSN: 2352-3409 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General): Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics; Science: Science (General)
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-in-brief/

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