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Reynard P, Joly CA, Damien M, Le Normand MT, Veuillet E, Thai-Van H. Age-Related Dichotic Listening Skills in Impaired and Non-Impaired Readers: A Comparative Study. J Clin Med 2023; 12:jcm12020666. [PMID: 36675595 PMCID: PMC9865678 DOI: 10.3390/jcm12020666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Revised: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Dichotic listening is the high-level auditory process which enables the perception of different verbal stimuli delivered simultaneously to the right and left ears (binaural integration), as well as the perception of a verbal stimulus presented to one ear while ignoring a different stimulus in the other ear (binaural separation). Deficits in central auditory processing have been reported in children with learning disabilities. The present study aimed to compare dichotic listening performances in right-handed impaired readers (IR) and non-impaired readers (non-IR) according to age. For this, a cross-sectional study was conducted in 120 IR (56 males and 64 females) divided into five age groups and 120 non-IR (63 male and 57 female) matched on chronological age (8 to 9 years; 9 to 10 years; 10 to 12 years; 12 to 18 years; adult). They were tested for binaural integration and binaural separation, allowing for the calculation of dichotic aptitude (DA), ear prevalence (EP), and attentional shift index (ASI). A series of ANOVAs showed an effect of age and of the reading group for all the dichotic-related measures, except for EP. Binaural separation scores were lower in IR who also showed more intrusive responses compared to non-IR. These intrusive responses, which were more frequent on the right ear for IR, decreased with age in both groups. Overall, these results suggest that dichotic listening scores improve with age as the central auditory pathways mature. However, whatever the age, performances are lower in IR than in non-IR. This might be explained by an incomplete maturation of the auditory pathways in IR; an early start for long-term follow-up and auditory training is suggested.
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- Pierre Reynard
- Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1120, 75012 Paris, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
- Service d’Audiologie et d’Explorations Oto-Neurologiques, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69003 Lyon, France
- Correspondence: (P.R.); (H.T.-V.)
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- Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1120, 75012 Paris, France
- Service d’Audiologie et d’Explorations Oto-Neurologiques, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69003 Lyon, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
- Service d’Audiologie et d’Explorations Oto-Neurologiques, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69003 Lyon, France
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- Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1120, 75012 Paris, France
- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Université de Paris Cité, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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- Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1120, 75012 Paris, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
- Service d’Audiologie et d’Explorations Oto-Neurologiques, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69003 Lyon, France
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- Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1120, 75012 Paris, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
- Service d’Audiologie et d’Explorations Oto-Neurologiques, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69003 Lyon, France
- Correspondence: (P.R.); (H.T.-V.)
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Culhaoglu B, Erbek SS, İnce DA, Ecevit AN, Erbek S. Medial olivary complex reflex in term newborns with hyperbilirubinemia. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2021; 147:110777. [PMID: 34116320 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2021.110777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the integrity of the efferent auditory pathways of newborns that had high hyperbilirubinemia levels and required treatment due to these and healthy newborns. METHODS Term-born (37 weeks or later) infants that were brought to the Newborn Polyclinic of the Başkent University Hospital were included in the study. The study included a total of 84 infants including healthy newborns (n = 42) and those that had jaundice and were receiving phototherapy (n = 42). After conducting a general otorhinolaryngology examination on all newborns included in the study, Transient Otoacoustic Emission (TEOAE) test was carried out in the absence and presence of contralateral noise. The obtained contralateral suppression values were compared between the two groups. RESULTS In the TEOAE test, the responses obtained at 1 kHz in the newborns receiving phototherapy were found to be lower. The difference between the groups was significant (p = 0.038). The rates of suppression presence at 2 kHz, 2.8 kHz and total OAE were found significantly higher (p < 0.05) in the group not receiving phototherapy. Among the phototherapy-receiving infants, the hyperbilirubinemia levels of the infants in whom suppression was obtained in the contralateral suppression test did not show a statistically significant difference in comparison to those in whom suppression was not obtained (p > 0.05). CONCLUSION Based on the obtained data, hyperbilirubinemia may have a disruptive effect on the efferent auditory system in newborns. Consequently, we are of the opinion that, in addition to hearing screening in risky newborn infants, a MOC suppression test would be useful.
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- Belde Culhaoglu
- Dept. of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
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- Dept. of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Dept. of Pediatric Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Dept. of Pediatric Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Dept. of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
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Boothalingam S, Allan C, Allen P, Purcell DW. The Medial Olivocochlear Reflex Is Unlikely to Play a Role in Listening Difficulties in Children. Trends Hear 2020; 23:2331216519870942. [PMID: 31558110 PMCID: PMC6767729 DOI: 10.1177/2331216519870942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR) has been implicated in several auditory processes. The putative role of the MOCR in improving speech perception in noise is particularly relevant for children who complain of listening difficulties (LiD). The hypothesis that the MOCR may be impaired in individuals with LiD or auditory processing disorder has led to several investigations but without consensus. In two related studies, we compared the MOCR functioning of children with LiD and typically developing (TD) children in the same age range (7-17 years). In Study 1, we investigated ipsilateral, contralateral, and bilateral MOCR using forward-masked click-evoked otoacoustic emissions (CEOAEs; n = 17 TD, 17 LiD). In Study 2, we employed three OAE types: CEOAEs (n = 16 TD, 21 LiD), stimulus frequency OAEs (n = 21 TD, 30 LiD), and distortion product OAEs (n = 17 TD, 22 LiD) in a contralateral noise paradigm. Results from both studies suggest that the MOCR functioning is not significantly different between the two groups. Some likely reasons for differences in findings among published studies could stem from the lack of strict data quality measures (e.g., high signal-to-noise ratio, control for the middle ear muscle reflex) that were enforced in the present study. The inherent variability of the MOCR, the subpar reliability of current MOCR methods, and the heterogeneity in auditory processing deficits that underlie auditory processing disorder make detecting clinically relevant differences in MOCR function impractical using current methods.
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- Sriram Boothalingam
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.,Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western University, London, ON, Canada.,National Centre for Audiology, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western University, London, ON, Canada.,National Centre for Audiology, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western University, London, ON, Canada.,National Centre for Audiology, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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Lotfi Y, Moossavi A, Javanbakht M, Faghih Zadeh S. Speech-ABR in contralateral noise: A potential tool to evaluate rostral part of the auditory efferent system. Med Hypotheses 2019; 132:109355. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2019.109355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Revised: 08/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Aksoy ED, Culhaoğlu B, Öcal FCA, Erbek SS, Erbek HS. Does the Efferent Auditory System Have a Role in Children with Specific Learning Disabilities? Turk Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2019; 57:30-33. [PMID: 31049250 DOI: 10.5152/tao.2019.3748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Objective This study aimed to compare the baseline transient otoacoustic emission (t-OAE) amplitudes and medial olivo-cochlear (MOC) efferent activity in children with specific learning disability (SLD) and children with normal development. Methods The study was conducted in two groups. The patient group included 30 children aged 6 to 10 years and diagnosed with SLD, and the control group included 30 children in the same age range without SLD. The patient group included eight males and 22 females, and the control group included 14 females and 16 males. t-OAE and contralateral suppression test were performed in both groups. Results In the first t-OAE measurements, a statistically significant difference was observed between the patient and the control group at frequencies of 1400, 2000, 2800, and 4000 Hz, but no such difference was observed at 1000 Hz frequency. In the control group, significantly better emission amplitudes were observed. No differences were found at any frequency between the patient and the control groups after suppression. When the subjects in the two groups were compared among themselves, there was a statistically significant difference between the before and after suppression scores in the patient group except at 4000 Hz. Likewise, an important difference was also observed in all frequencies in the control group. Conclusion This study shows that suppression effects of t-OAE on children diagnosed with SLD and children with no SDL are not significantly different.
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- Emine Demirel Aksoy
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Başkent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Başkent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Başkent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Başkent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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Akbari M, Panahi R, Valadbeigi A, Hamadi Nahrani M. Speech-in-noise perception ability can be related to auditory efferent pathway function: a comparative study in reading impaired and normal reading children. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol 2019; 86:209-216. [PMID: 30772249 PMCID: PMC9422508 DOI: 10.1016/j.bjorl.2018.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Introduction Deficient auditory processing can cause problems with speech perception and affect the development and evolution of reading skills. The efferent auditory pathway has an important role in normal auditory system functions like speech-in-noise perception, but there is still no general agreement on this. Objective To study the performance of the efferent auditory system in a group of children with reading impairment in comparison with normal reading and evaluation of its relationship with speech-in-noise perception. Methods A total of 53 children between the ages of 8–12 years were selected for the study of which 27 were with reading impairment and 26 were normal reading children. Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions suppression and auditory recognition of words-in-noise test were performed for all the children. Results The average amplitude of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions suppression showed a significant difference between the two groups in the right (p = 0.004) and in the left ear (p = 0.028). Assessment of the relationship between transient evoked otoacoustic emissions suppression and monaural auditory recognition of words-in-noise scores showed a significant moderate negative relationship only in the right ear (p = 0.034, r = −0.41) of the normal reading children. Binaural auditory recognition of words-in-noise scores were significantly correlated with the amplitude of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions suppression in the right ear (p < 0.001, r = −0.75) and in the left ear (p < 0.001, r = −0.64) of normal reading children. In the reading impaired group, ?a weaker correlation was observed between binaural auditory recognition of words-in-noise scores and transient evoked otoacoustic emissions suppression in the right (p = 0.003, r = −0.55) and in the left ear (p = 0.012, r = −0.47). Conclusions Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions suppression pattern in the reading impaired group was different compared with normal reading children, and this difference could be related to efferent system performance. Words-in-noise scores in children with impaired reading were lower than in normal reading children. In addition, a relationship was found between transient evoked otoacoustic emissions suppression and words-in-noise scores in both normal and impaired reading children.
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- Mehdi Akbari
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Audiology, Tehran, Iran
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- Iran University of Medical Sciences, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Audiology, Tehran, Iran.
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- Iran University of Medical Sciences, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Audiology, Tehran, Iran
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- Iran University of Medical Sciences, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Audiology, Tehran, Iran
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Ubiali T, Sanfins MD, Borges LR, Colella-Santos MF. Contralateral Noise Stimulation Delays P300 Latency in School-Aged Children. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0148360. [PMID: 26849224 PMCID: PMC4744065 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background and Objective The auditory cortex modulates auditory afferents through the olivocochlear system, which innervates the outer hair cells and the afferent neurons under the inner hair cells in the cochlea. Most of the studies that investigated the efferent activity in humans focused on evaluating the suppression of the otoacoustic emissions by stimulating the contralateral ear with noise, which assesses the activation of the medial olivocochlear bundle. The neurophysiology and the mechanisms involving efferent activity on higher regions of the auditory pathway, however, are still unknown. Also, the lack of studies investigating the effects of noise on human auditory cortex, especially in peadiatric population, points to the need for recording the late auditory potentials in noise conditions. Assessing the auditory efferents in schoolaged children is highly important due to some of its attributed functions such as selective attention and signal detection in noise, which are important abilities related to the development of language and academic skills. For this reason, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of noise on P300 responses of children with normal hearing. Methods P300 was recorded in 27 children aged from 8 to 14 years with normal hearing in two conditions: with and whitout contralateral white noise stimulation. Results P300 latencies were significantly longer at the presence of contralateral noise. No significant changes were observed for the amplitude values. Conclusion Contralateral white noise stimulation delayed P300 latency in a group of school-aged children with normal hearing. These results suggest a possible influence of the medial olivocochlear activation on P300 responses under noise condition.
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- Thalita Ubiali
- Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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