Brain's Language Response Predicts Cognitive Ability in Autism

A distinct pattern of brain waves related to language comprehension predicts how well 2-year-old children with autism will fare on a range of cognitive measures later in childhood, according to unpublished research presented last week at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting in San Francisco.Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington in Seattle has been studying language acquisition for several decades. In the new study, she used electroencephalography (EEG), a noninvasive method of measuring brain activity through electrodes on the scalp.Read more at...SFARI.org, April 2013.