Halie A. Olson

The study shows that language brain areas remain selective for language over music in children and musicians, regardless of music experience.

This study uses fMRI to show that toddlers as young as 19-36 months have left frontal and temporal cortex responses to comprehensible language, similar to adults, suggesting early language system development.

This study investigates brain responses in autistic children to personalized versus generic narratives, finding heightened and more consistent responses to personalized narratives.

This study analyzes 766 awake infant fMRI sessions to identify factors affecting data collection and retention, offering insights to improve future research.

This study uses personalized narratives in fMRI to show that children's interests enhance language processing in brain regions associated with reward and self-reference.

The paper investigates neural responses to dialogue and monologue in left-hemisphere language regions, finding no difference in response to dialogue versus monologue.