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Chen A. Twenty-month-olds categorically discriminate similar sounding vowels regardless of vocabulary level, an event related potentials (ERP) study. JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE 2024; 51:434-453. [PMID: 37424065 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000923000351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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The current study investigated whether vocabulary relates to phonetic categorization at neural level in early childhood. Electoencephalogram (EEG) responses were collected from 53 Dutch 20-month-old children in a passive oddball paradigm, in which they were presented with two nonwords "giep" [ɣip] and "gip" [ɣɪp] that were contrasted solely by the vowel. In the multiple-speaker condition, both nonwords were produced by twelve different speakers; while, in the single-speaker condition, one single token of each word was used as stimuli. Infant positive mismatch responses (p-MMR) were elicited in both conditions without significant amplitude differences. When the infants were median split based on vocabulary level, the large and small vocabulary groups showed comparable p-MMR amplitudes yet different scalp distribution in both conditions. These results suggest successful phonetic categorization of native similar sounding vowels at 20 months, and a close relationship between speech categorization and vocabulary development.
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- Ao Chen
- School of Psychology, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
- Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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Schaadt G, Werwach A, Obrig H, Friederici AD, Männel C. Maturation of consonant perception, but not vowel perception, predicts lexical skills at 12 months. Child Dev 2023; 94:e166-e180. [PMID: 36716199 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Consonants and vowels differentially contribute to lexical acquisition. From 8 months on, infants' preferential reliance on consonants has been shown to predict their lexical outcome. Here, the predictive value of German-learning infants' (n = 58, 29 girls, 29 boys) trajectories of consonant and vowel perception, indicated by the electrophysiological mismatch response, across 2, 6, and 10 months for later lexical acquisition was studied. The consonant-perception trajectory from 2 to 6 months (β = -2.95) and 6 to 10 months (β = -.91), but not the vowel-perception trajectory, significantly predicted receptive vocabulary at 12 months. These results reveal an earlier predictive value of consonant perception for word learning than previously found, and a particular role of the longitudinal maturation of this skill in lexical acquisition.
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- Gesa Schaadt
- Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
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- Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.,Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Audiology and Phoniatrics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Hervé E, Mento G, Desnous B, François C. Challenges and new perspectives of developmental cognitive EEG studies. Neuroimage 2022; 260:119508. [PMID: 35882267 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 10/16/2022] Open
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Despite shared procedures with adults, electroencephalography (EEG) in early development presents many specificities that need to be considered for good quality data collection. In this paper, we provide an overview of the most representative early cognitive developmental EEG studies focusing on the specificities of this neuroimaging technique in young participants, such as attrition and artifacts. We also summarize the most representative results in developmental EEG research obtained in the time and time-frequency domains and use more advanced signal processing methods. Finally, we briefly introduce three recent standardized pipelines that will help promote replicability and comparability across experiments and ages. While this paper does not claim to be exhaustive, it aims to give a sufficiently large overview of the challenges and solutions available to conduct robust cognitive developmental EEG studies.
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- Estelle Hervé
- CNRS, LPL, Aix-Marseille University, 5 Avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence 13100, France
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy; Padua Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
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- APHM, Reference Center for Rare Epilepsies, Timone Children Hospital, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille 13005, France; Inserm, INS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille 13005, France
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- CNRS, LPL, Aix-Marseille University, 5 Avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence 13100, France.
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Werwach A, Männel C, Obrig H, Friederici AD, Schaadt G. Longitudinal trajectories of electrophysiological mismatch responses in infant speech discrimination differ across speech features. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2022; 56:101127. [PMID: 35763917 PMCID: PMC9250001 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Infants rapidly advance in their speech perception, electrophysiologically reflected in the transition from an immature, positive-going to an adult-like, negative-going mismatch response (MMR) to auditory deviancy. Although the MMR is a common tool to study speech perception development, it is not yet completely understood how different speech contrasts affect the MMR’s characteristics across development. Thus, a systematic longitudinal investigation of the MMR’s maturation depending on speech contrast is necessary. We here longitudinally explored the maturation of the infant MMR to four critical speech contrasts: consonant, vowel, vowel-length, and pitch. MMRs were obtained when infants (n = 58) were 2, 6 and 10 months old. To evaluate the maturational trajectory of MMRs, we applied second-order latent growth curve models. Results showed positive-going MMR amplitudes to all speech contrasts across all assessment points that decreased over time towards an adult-like negativity. Notably, the developmental trajectories of speech contrasts differed, implying that infant speech perception matures with different rates and trajectories throughout the first year, depending on the studied auditory feature. Our results suggest that stimulus-dependent maturational trajectories need to be considered when drawing conclusions about infant speech perception development reflected by the infant MMR. Understanding speech perception development requires longitudinal investigations. The Mismatch Response (MMR) is valuable to study infants’ speech perception. We investigated the infant MMR longitudinally across three assessment points. MMRs to different speech features became more mature during infants’ first year. Different MMR trajectories imply feature-dependent maturation of speech perception.
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- Annika Werwach
- Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Liebigstr. 16, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Liebigstr. 16, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; Department of Audiology and Phoniatrics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Liebigstr. 16, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Schwendenerstr. 33, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Virtala P, Putkinen V, Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist L, Thiede A, Partanen E, Kujala T. Infancy and early childhood maturation of neural auditory change detection and its associations to familial dyslexia risk. Clin Neurophysiol 2022; 137:159-176. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2022.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Revised: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Key AP. Searching for a "Brain Signature" of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Event-Related Potentials and the Quest for Biomarkers of Cognition. J Clin Neurophysiol 2022; 39:113-120. [PMID: 34366396 DOI: 10.1097/wnp.0000000000000727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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SUMMARY This review summarizes main applications of event-related potentials (ERPs) to the study of cognitive processes in persons with neurodevelopmental disorders, for whom traditional behavioral assessments may not be suitable. A brief introduction to the ERPs is followed by a review of empirical studies using passive ERP paradigms to address three main questions: characterizing individual differences, predicting risk for poor developmental outcomes, and documenting treatment effects in persons with neurodevelopmental disorders. Evidence across studies reveals feasibility of ERP methodology in a wide range of clinical populations and notes consistently stronger brain-behavior associations involving ERP measures of higher-order cognition compared with sensory-perceptual processes. The final section describes the current limitations of ERP methodology that need to be addressed before it could be used as a clinical tool and highlights the needed steps toward translating ERPs from group-level research applications to individually interpretable clinical use.
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- Alexandra P Key
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A
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Ziatabar Ahmadi Z, Mahmoudian S, Ashayeri H. P-MMR and LDN beside MMN as Speech-evoked Neural Markers in Children with Cochlear Implants: A Review. Dev Neuropsychol 2021; 47:1-16. [PMID: 34927493 DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2021.2004601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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This review mainly explores less-reported neural markers to speech-evoked contrasts in children with cochlear implants (CI). Databases and electronic journals were searched with keywords of "mismatch responses" AND "positive mismatch response" (p-MMR) AND "late discriminate negativity" (LDN). P-MMR likely is as a measurement of brain immaturity in CI children while the developmental trajectories of LDN remain unexplained in older CI children. In CI children, there is a p-MMR-MMN-LDN sequence to speech stimuli developmentally. Whereas these aforementioned neural responses anticipate developmental changes in CI groups, it is still uncertain about the cutoff age for disappearance of p-MMR and LDN.
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- Zohreh Ziatabar Ahmadi
- Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- ENT and Head & Neck Research Center and Department, The Five Senses Health Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of Hannover (Mhh), Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Basic Sciences in Rehabilitation, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Sandre A, Panier L, O'Brien A, Weinberg A. Internal consistency reliability of the P300 to novelty in infants: The influence of trial number and data loss due to artifacts. Dev Psychobiol 2021; 63:e22208. [PMID: 34813097 DOI: 10.1002/dev.22208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Revised: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The P300 is an event-related potential component that reflects attention to motivationally salient stimuli and may be a promising tool to examine individual differences in cognitive-affective processing very early in development. However, the psychometric properties of the P300 in infancy are unknown, a fact that limits the component's utility as an individual difference measure in developmental research. To address this gap, 38 infants completed an auditory three-stimulus oddball task that included frequent standard, infrequent deviant, and novel stimuli. We quantified the P300 at a single electrode site and at region of interest (ROI) and examined the internal consistency reliability of the component, both via split-half reliability and as a function of trial number. Results indicated that the P300 to standard, deviant, and novel stimuli fell within moderate to high internal consistency reliability thresholds, and that scoring the component at an ROI led to slightly higher estimates of reliability. However, the percentage of data loss due to artifacts increased across the course of the task, suggesting that including more trials will not necessarily improve the reliability of the P300. Together, these results suggest that robust and reliable measurement of the P300 will require designing tasks that minimize trial number and maximize infant tolerability.
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- Aislinn Sandre
- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Cheng YY, Wu HC, Shih HY, Yeh PW, Yen HL, Lee CY. Deficits in Processing of Lexical Tones in Mandarin-Speaking Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Electrophysiological Evidence. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2021; 64:1176-1188. [PMID: 33789056 DOI: 10.1044/2021_jslhr-19-00392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Purpose This study explored the neural marker indexing deficits in discriminating lexical tone changes in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) using mismatch negativity, an event-related potential component for auditory change detection. Mandarin has four lexical tones characterized by a high-level tone (T1), high-rising tone (T2), low-dipping tone (T3), and high-falling tone (T4), in which the T2/T3 contrast is acoustically less discriminable in developmental groups. Therefore, this study further examined how deficits in children with DLD would vary with tonal contrasts' acoustic saliency. Method Event-related potentials were measured using the multideviant oddball paradigm described by Lee et al. (2012), who used Mandarin syllables [i] in T3 as the standard sound (80%), T1 as the large deviant (10%), and T2 as the small deviant (10%). Twelve children with DLD aged between 4 and 6 years participated in this study, and 12 age-matched children with typical development were selected from the data set of Lee et al. (2012) as the controls. Results The T1/T3 change elicited adultlike mismatch negativity in both the DLD and control groups, while no group difference was revealed. The T2/T3 change elicited a robust positive mismatch response (P-MMR) in children with DLD, while the P-MMR was less significant in the control group. The group comparisons revealed a larger P-MMR in children with DLD than in the control group. Furthermore, children with lower scores in language assessments tend to reveal larger P-MMRs. Conclusions This study demonstrated that deficits in children with DLD in discriminating subtle lexical tone changes reflect greater positivity of P-MMR to T2/T3 change. This implies that MMR to T2/T3 may serve as a neural marker for evaluating language delay in preschoolers.
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
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- Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan
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Lohvansuu K, Torppa M, Ahonen T, Eklund K, Hämäläinen JA, Leppänen PHT, Lyytinen H. Unveiling the Mysteries of Dyslexia-Lessons Learned from the Prospective Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia. Brain Sci 2021; 11:427. [PMID: 33801593 PMCID: PMC8066413 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11040427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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This paper reviews the observations of the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD). The JLD is a prospective family risk study in which the development of children with familial risk for dyslexia (N = 108) due to parental dyslexia and controls without dyslexia risk (N = 92) were followed from birth to adulthood. The JLD revealed that the likelihood of at-risk children performing poorly in reading and spelling tasks was fourfold compared to the controls. Auditory insensitivity of newborns observed during the first week of life using brain event-related potentials (ERPs) was shown to be the first precursor of dyslexia. ERPs measured at six months of age related to phoneme length identification differentiated the family risk group from the control group and predicted reading speed until the age of 14 years. Early oral language skills, phonological processing skills, rapid automatized naming, and letter knowledge differentiated the groups from ages 2.5-3.5 years onwards and predicted dyslexia and reading development, including reading comprehension, until adolescence. The home environment, a child's interest in reading, and task avoidance were not different in the risk group but were found to be additional predictors of reading development. Based on the JLD findings, preventive and intervention methods utilizing the association learning approach have been developed.
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- Kaisa Lohvansuu
- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; (T.A.); (J.A.H.); (P.H.T.L.)
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- Department of Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland;
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- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; (T.A.); (J.A.H.); (P.H.T.L.)
- Niilo Mäki Institute, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland;
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- Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland;
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- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; (T.A.); (J.A.H.); (P.H.T.L.)
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- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; (T.A.); (J.A.H.); (P.H.T.L.)
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- Niilo Mäki Institute, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland;
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Yu YH, Tessel C, Han X, Campanelli L, Vidal N, Gerometta J, Garrido-Nag K, Datta H, Shafer VL. Neural Indices of Vowel Discrimination in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants and Children. Ear Hear 2020; 40:1376-1390. [PMID: 31033699 PMCID: PMC6814506 DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000000726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To examine maturation of neural discriminative responses to an English vowel contrast from infancy to 4 years of age and to determine how biological factors (age and sex) and an experiential factor (amount of Spanish versus English input) modulate neural discrimination of speech. DESIGN Event-related potential (ERP) mismatch responses (MMRs) were used as indices of discrimination of the American English vowels [ε] versus [I] in infants and children between 3 months and 47 months of age. A total of 168 longitudinal and cross-sectional data sets were collected from 98 children (Bilingual Spanish-English: 47 male and 31 female sessions; Monolingual English: 48 male and 42 female sessions). Language exposure and other language measures were collected. ERP responses were examined in an early time window (160 to 360 msec, early MMR [eMMR]) and late time window (400 to 600 msec, late MMR). RESULTS The eMMR became more negative with increasing age. Language experience and sex also influenced the amplitude of the eMMR. Specifically, bilingual children, especially bilingual females, showed more negative eMMR compared with monolingual children and with males. However, the subset of bilingual children with more exposure to English than Spanish compared with those with more exposure to Spanish than English (as reported by caretakers) showed similar amplitude of the eMMR to their monolingual peers. Age was the only factor that influenced the amplitude of the late MMR. More negative late MMR was observed in older children with no difference found between bilingual and monolingual groups. CONCLUSIONS Consistent with previous studies, our findings revealed that biological factors (age and sex) and language experience modulated the amplitude of the eMMR in young children. The early negative MMR is likely to be the mismatch negativity found in older children and adults. In contrast, the late MMR amplitude was influenced only by age and may be equivalent to the Nc in infants and to the late negativity observed in some auditory passive oddball designs.
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- Yan H. Yu
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, St.
John’s University, Queens, NY, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Florida
Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Science, Fordham
University, New York, NY, USA
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- Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, The
Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Speech Communication Studies, Iona College, New Rochelle,
NY, USA
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- Hearing, Speech, Language Sciences, Gallaudet University,
Washington DC, USA
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- Speech-Language Pathology, Molloy College, Rockville
Centre, NY, USA
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- Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, The
Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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Kostilainen K, Partanen E, Mikkola K, Wikström V, Pakarinen S, Fellman V, Huotilainen M. Neural processing of changes in phonetic and emotional speech sounds and tones in preterm infants at term age. Int J Psychophysiol 2020; 148:111-118. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2018] [Revised: 09/10/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Musical playschool activities are linked to faster auditory development during preschool-age: a longitudinal ERP study. Sci Rep 2019; 9:11310. [PMID: 31383938 PMCID: PMC6683192 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47467-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The influence of musical experience on brain development has been mostly studied in school-aged children with formal musical training while little is known about the possible effects of less formal musical activities typical for preschool-aged children (e.g., before the age of seven). In the current study, we investigated whether the amount of musical group activities is reflected in the maturation of neural sound discrimination from toddler to preschool-age. Specifically, we recorded event-related potentials longitudinally (84 recordings from 33 children) in a mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm to different musically relevant sound changes at ages 2–3, 4–5 and 6–7 years from children who attended a musical playschool throughout the follow-up period and children with shorter attendance to the same playschool. In the first group, we found a gradual positive to negative shift in the polarities of the mismatch responses while the latter group showed little evidence of age-related changes in neural sound discrimination. The current study indicates that the maturation of sound encoding indexed by the MMN may be more protracted than once thought and provides first longitudinal evidence that even quite informal musical group activities facilitate the development of neural sound discrimination during early childhood.
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An extensive pattern of atypical neural speech-sound discrimination in newborns at risk of dyslexia. Clin Neurophysiol 2019; 130:634-646. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lee CY. Neural Underpinnings of Early Speech Perception and Emergent Literacy. Folia Phoniatr Logop 2019; 71:146-155. [PMID: 31018199 DOI: 10.1159/000497058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event-related potential component used to index automatic auditory change detection. Thus, MMN provides an excellent tool to assess the speech sensitivity of infants and children. Although MMN is well established in adults, the polarity and latency of mismatch responses (MMRs) in infants are highly inconsistent across studies. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of MMN studies of speech perception in early infancy. In particular, data from a series of MMN studies of Mandarin lexical tone, vowels, and initial consonants will be presented to demonstrate how phonological saliency, size of deviance, and neural maturation modulate MMRs in early infancy. These data suggest that MMN and positive MMRs index different functional characteristics and may provide information on when and how children's speech perception becomes automatic at different developmental stages. By using MMN to index sensitivity to speech discrimination, dyslexic children usually show reduced or absent MMN, which supports the relationship between phonological sensitivity and literacy. However, children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder showed the typical MMN, but attenuated P3a and enhanced late discriminative negativity. Taken together, the MMR characteristics, including amplitude, peak latency, and the transition of polarity, may be used to index the maturation of speech development and for the early identification of children with atypical language development.
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- Chia-Ying Lee
- Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, .,Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, .,Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, .,Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan,
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Two are better than one: Infant language learning from video improves in the presence of peers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:9859-9866. [PMID: 30275298 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611621115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Studies show that young children learn new phonemes and words from humans significantly better than from machines. However, it is not clear why learning from video is ineffective or what might be done to improve learning from a screen. The present study, conducted with 9-month-old infants, utilized a manipulation-touch screen video-which allowed infants to control presentations of foreign-language video clips. We tested the hypothesis that infant learning from a screen would be enhanced in the presence of a peer, as opposed to learning alone. Brain measures of phonetic learning and detailed analyses of interaction during learning confirm the hypothesis that social partners enhance learning, even from screens.
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Uhler KM, Hunter SK, Tierney E, Gilley PM. The relationship between mismatch response and the acoustic change complex in normal hearing infants. Clin Neurophysiol 2018; 129:1148-1160. [PMID: 29635099 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.02.132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Revised: 02/19/2018] [Accepted: 02/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the utility of the mismatch response (MMR) and acoustic change complex (ACC) for assessing speech discrimination in infants. METHODS Continuous EEG was recorded during sleep from 48 (24 male, 20 female) normally hearing aged 1.77 to -4.57 months in response to two auditory discrimination tasks. ACC was recorded in response to a three-vowel sequence (/i/-/a/-/i/). MMR was recorded in response to a standard vowel, /a/, (probability 85%), and to a deviant vowel, /i/, (probability of 15%). A priori comparisons included: age, sex, and sleep state. These were conducted separately for each of the three bandpass filter settings were compared (1-18, 1-30, and 1-40 Hz). RESULTS A priori tests revealed no differences in MMR or ACC for age, sex, or sleep state for any of the three filter settings. ACC and MMR responses were prominently observed in all 44 sleeping infants (data from four infants were excluded). Significant differences observed for ACC were to the onset and offset of stimuli. However, neither group nor individual differences were observed to changes in speech stimuli in the ACC. MMR revealed two prominent peaks occurring at the stimulus onset and at the stimulus offset. Permutation t-tests revealed significant differences between the standard and deviant stimuli for both the onset and offset MMR peaks (p < 0.01). The 1-18 Hz filter setting revealed significant differences for all participants in the MMR paradigm. CONCLUSION Both ACC and MMR responses were observed to auditory stimulation suggesting that infants perceive and process speech information even during sleep. Significant differences between the standard and deviant responses were observed in the MMR, but not ACC paradigm. These findings suggest that the MMR is sensitive to detecting auditory/speech discrimination processing. SIGNIFICANCE This paper identified that MMR can be used to identify discrimination in normal hearing infants. This suggests that MMR has potential for use in infants with hearing loss to validate hearing aid fittings.
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- Kristin M Uhler
- University of Colorado Denver, Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Otolaryngology, and Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
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- University of Colorado Denver, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Aurora, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado Denver, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Aurora, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, Institute of Cognitive Science, Neurodynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
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Cheng YY, Lee CY. The Development of Mismatch Responses to Mandarin Lexical Tone in 12- to 24-Month-Old Infants. Front Psychol 2018; 9:448. [PMID: 29692746 PMCID: PMC5902780 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study explores the development of mismatch responses (MMRs) to Mandarin lexical tone changes in infants at 12, 18, and 24 months of age using the multi-deviant oddball paradigm with the low dipping Tone 3 (T3) as the standard, the high level Tone 1 (T1) as the large, and the high rising Tone 2 (T2) as the small deviant. The results show that the large acoustic change between T1/T3 elicited mismatch negativity (MMN) in all three age groups. The small acoustic change between T2/T3 elicited a positive mismatch response (P-MMR) at 12 and 18 months of age, but no MMR was found to the T2/T3 change at 24 months. The coexistence of MMN and P-MMR in the same age group implies that different mechanisms were used for discriminating large and small deviants. Infants were able to detect the T1/T3 change automatically and showed adult-like MMN as early as 6 months of age. However, the detection of the T2/T3 change remains effortful in infants under 24 months of age. These findings support the notion that MMN and P-MMR may be used to index the maturation of speech perception.
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- Ying-Ying Cheng
- Brain and Language Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Aim for the Top University Project, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Brain and Language Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Healthy full-term infants' brain responses to emotionally and linguistically relevant sounds using a multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm. Neurosci Lett 2018; 670:110-115. [PMID: 29374541 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.01.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Revised: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We evaluated the feasibility of a multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm in studying auditory processing of healthy newborns. The aim was to examine the automatic change-detection and processing of semantic and emotional information in speech in newborns. Brain responses of 202 healthy newborns were recorded with a multi-feature paradigm including a Finnish bi-syllabic pseudo-word/ta-ta/as a standard stimulus, six linguistically relevant deviant stimuli and three emotionally relevant stimuli (happy, sad, angry). Clear responses to emotional sounds were found already at the early latency window 100-200 ms, whereas responses to linguistically relevant minor changes and emotional stimuli at the later latency window 300-500 ms did not reach significance. Moreover, significant interaction between gender and emotional stimuli was found in the early latency window. Further studies on using multi-feature paradigms with linguistic and emotional stimuli in newborns are needed, especially those containing of follow-ups, enabling the assessment of the predictive value of early variations between subjects.
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Zinke K, Thöne L, Bolinger EM, Born J. Dissociating Long and Short-term Memory in Three-Month-Old Infants Using the Mismatch Response to Voice Stimuli. Front Psychol 2018; 9:31. [PMID: 29441032 PMCID: PMC5797688 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) have been successfully used in adults as well as in newborns to discriminate recall of longer-term and shorter-term memories. Specifically the Mismatch Response (MMR) to deviant stimuli of an oddball paradigm is larger if the deviant stimuli are highly familiar (i.e., retrieved from long-term memory) than if they are unfamiliar, representing an immediate change to the standard stimuli kept in short-term memory. Here, we aimed to extend previous findings indicating a differential MMR to familiar and unfamiliar deviants in newborns (Beauchemin et al., 2011), to 3-month-old infants who are starting to interact more with their social surroundings supposedly based on forming more (social) long-term representations. Using a voice discrimination paradigm, each infant was repeatedly presented with the word “baby” (400 ms, interstimulus interval: 600 ms, 10 min overall duration) pronounced by three different female speakers. One voice that was unfamiliar to the infants served as the frequently presented “standard” stimulus, whereas another unfamiliar voice served as the “unfamiliar deviant” stimulus, and the voice of the infant’s mother served as the “familiar deviant.” Data collection was successful for 31 infants (mean age = 100 days). The MMR was determined by the difference between the ERP to standard stimuli and the ERP to the unfamiliar and familiar deviant, respectively. The MMR to the familiar deviant (mother’s voice) was larger, i.e., more positive, than that to the unfamiliar deviant between 100 and 400 ms post-stimulus over the frontal and central cortex. However, a genuine MMR differentiating, as a positive deflection, between ERPs to familiar deviants and standard stimuli was only found in the 300–400 ms interval. On the other hand, a genuine MMR differentiating, as a negative deflection, between ERPs to unfamiliar deviants from ERPs to standard stimuli was revealed for the 200–300 ms post-stimulus interval. Overall results confirm a differential MMR response to unfamiliar and familiar deviants in 3-month-olds, with the earlier negative MMR to unfamiliar deviants likely reflecting change detection based on comparison processes in short-term memory, and the later positive MMR to familiar deviants reflecting subsequent long-term memory-based processing of stimulus relevance.
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- Katharina Zinke
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Relationships between quantity of language input and brain responses in bilingual and monolingual infants. Int J Psychophysiol 2016; 110:1-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2016] [Revised: 09/27/2016] [Accepted: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Neonatal Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials Are Affected by Clinical Conditions Occurring in Early Prematurity. J Clin Neurophysiol 2016; 32:419-23. [PMID: 25923204 DOI: 10.1097/wnp.0000000000000182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Cortical auditory evoked potentials may serve as an early indicator of developmental problems in the auditory cortex. The aim of the study was to determine the effect on neonatal cortical auditory processing of clinical conditions occurring in early prematurity. METHODS Sixty-seven preterm infants born at 29 weeks mean gestational age (range, 23-34 weeks) were recorded at a mean postconception age of 35 weeks, before discharge from the third level neonatal intensive care unit. The average of 330 responses to standard 1000 Hz pure tones delivered in an oddball paradigm was recorded at frontal location. Data of 45 of 67 recruited premature infants were available for analysis. Mean amplitudes calculated from the data points of 30 milliseconds centered on P1 and N2 peaks in the waveforms of each subject were measured. The effect of perinatal clinical factors on cortical auditory evoked responses was evaluated. RESULTS The amplitude of P1 component was significantly lower in infants with bronco-pulmonary dysplasia (P = 0.004) and retinopathy of prematurity (P = 0.03). The multivariate analysis, done to evaluate the relative weight of gestational age and bronco-pulmonary dysplasia and/or retinopathy of prematurity on cortical auditory evoked potentials components, showed an effect of clinical factors on P1 (P = 0.005) and of gestational age on N2 (P = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS Cortical auditory processing seems to be influenced by clinical conditions complicating extremely preterm birth.
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Galazka M, Bakker M, Gredebäck G, Nyström P. How social is the chaser? Neural correlates of chasing perception in 9-month-old infants. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2016; 19:270-8. [PMID: 27258722 PMCID: PMC6988589 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2016.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Revised: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We investigated the neural correlates of chasing perception in infancy to determine whether animated interactions are processed as social events. By using EEG and an ERP design with animations of simple geometric shapes, we examined whether the positive posterior (P400) component, previously found in response to social stimuli, as well as the attention related negative fronto-central component (Nc), differs when infants observed a chaser versus a non-chaser. In Study 1, the chaser was compared to an inanimate object. In Study 2, the chaser was compared to an animate but not chasing agent (randomly moving agent). Results demonstrate no difference in the Nc component, but statistically higher P400 amplitude when the chasing agent was compared to either an inanimate object or a random object. We also find a difference in the N290 component in both studies and in the P200 component in Study 2, when the chasing agent is compared to the randomly moving agent. The present studies demonstrate for the first time that infants' process correlated motion such as chasing as a social interaction. The perception of the chasing agent elicits stronger time-locked responses, denoting a link between motion perception and social cognition.
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- Martyna Galazka
- Uppsala Child and Babylab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Uppsala Child and Babylab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Uppsala Child and Babylab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Uppsala Child and Babylab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Cirelli LK, Spinelli C, Nozaradan S, Trainor LJ. Measuring Neural Entrainment to Beat and Meter in Infants: Effects of Music Background. Front Neurosci 2016; 10:229. [PMID: 27252619 PMCID: PMC4877507 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Caregivers often engage in musical interactions with their infants. For example, parents across cultures sing lullabies and playsongs to their infants from birth. Behavioral studies indicate that infants not only extract beat information, but also group these beats into metrical hierarchies by as early as 6 months of age. However, it is not known how this is accomplished in the infant brain. An EEG frequency-tagging approach has been used successfully with adults to measure neural entrainment to auditory rhythms. The current study is the first to use this technique with infants in order to investigate how infants' brains encode rhythms. Furthermore, we examine how infant and parent music background is associated with individual differences in rhythm encoding. In Experiment 1, EEG was recorded while 7-month-old infants listened to an ambiguous rhythmic pattern that could be perceived to be in two different meters. In Experiment 2, EEG was recorded while 15-month-old infants listened to a rhythmic pattern with an unambiguous meter. In both age groups, information about music background (parent music training, infant music classes, hours of music listening) was collected. Both age groups showed clear EEG responses frequency-locked to the rhythms, at frequencies corresponding to both beat and meter. For the younger infants (Experiment 1), the amplitudes at duple meter frequencies were selectively enhanced for infants enrolled in music classes compared to those who had not engaged in such classes. For the older infants (Experiment 2), amplitudes at beat and meter frequencies were larger for infants with musically-trained compared to musically-untrained parents. These results suggest that the frequency-tagging method is sensitive to individual differences in beat and meter processing in infancy and could be used to track developmental changes.
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- Laura K. Cirelli
- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster UniversityHamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster UniversityHamilton, ON, Canada
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- MARCS Institute, Western Sydney UniversityMilperra, NSW, Australia
- Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique de LouvainLouvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- BRAMS, Université de MontréalOutremont, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster UniversityHamilton, ON, Canada
- McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, McMaster UniversityHamilton, ON, Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest HospitalToronto, ON, Canada
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Key AP, Yoder PJ, Stone WL. Consonant differentiation mediates the discrepancy between non-verbal and verbal abilities in children with ASD. JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH : JIDR 2016; 60:478-90. [PMID: 27120990 PMCID: PMC6927012 DOI: 10.1111/jir.12286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Revised: 01/04/2016] [Accepted: 03/16/2016] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate verbal communication disorders reflected in lower verbal than non-verbal abilities. The present study examined the extent to which this discrepancy is associated with atypical speech sound differentiation. METHODS Differences in the amplitude of auditory event-related potentials elicited by contrasting consonant-vowel syllables during a passive listening paradigm were used to assess speech sound differentiation in 24 children with ASD and 18 chronological age-matched children with typical development (TD), M age 6.90 years (SD = 1.39). RESULTS Results revealed that compared with TD peers, children with ASD showed reduced consonant differentiation in the 84- to 308-ms period. Brain responses indexing consonant differentiation were negatively related to the degree of discrepancy in non-verbal and verbal abilities and mediated the relationship between diagnostic group membership and the greater discrepancy. CONCLUSIONS We discuss the theoretical and clinical implications of the brain's response to speech sound contrasts possibly explaining the greater non-verbal versus language ability in children with ASD compared with that in typically developing children.
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- A P Key
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Erfanian Saeedi N, Blamey PJ, Burkitt AN, Grayden DB. Learning Pitch with STDP: A Computational Model of Place and Temporal Pitch Perception Using Spiking Neural Networks. PLoS Comput Biol 2016; 12:e1004860. [PMID: 27049657 PMCID: PMC4822863 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2015] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Pitch perception is important for understanding speech prosody, music perception, recognizing tones in tonal languages, and perceiving speech in noisy environments. The two principal pitch perception theories consider the place of maximum neural excitation along the auditory nerve and the temporal pattern of the auditory neurons’ action potentials (spikes) as pitch cues. This paper describes a biophysical mechanism by which fine-structure temporal information can be extracted from the spikes generated at the auditory periphery. Deriving meaningful pitch-related information from spike times requires neural structures specialized in capturing synchronous or correlated activity from amongst neural events. The emergence of such pitch-processing neural mechanisms is described through a computational model of auditory processing. Simulation results show that a correlation-based, unsupervised, spike-based form of Hebbian learning can explain the development of neural structures required for recognizing the pitch of simple and complex tones, with or without the fundamental frequency. The temporal code is robust to variations in the spectral shape of the signal and thus can explain the phenomenon of pitch constancy. Pitch is the perceptual correlate of sound frequency. Our auditory system has a sophisticated mechanism to process and perceive the neural information corresponding to pitch. This mechanism employs both the place and the temporal pattern of pitch-evoked neural events. Based on the known functions of the auditory system, we develop a computational model of pitch perception using a network of neurons with modifiable connections. We demonstrate that a well-known neural learning rule that is based on the timing of the neural events can identify and strengthen the neuronal connections that are most effective for the extraction of pitch. By providing an insight into how the auditory system interprets pitch information, the results of our study can be used to develop improved sound processing strategies for cochlear implants. In cochlear implant hearing, auditory percept is generated by stimulating the auditory neurons with controlled electrical impulses, enhancing which with the help of the model would lead to a better representation of pitch and would subsequently improve music perception and speech understanding in noisy environments in cochlear implant users.
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- Nafise Erfanian Saeedi
- NeuroEngineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- The Bionics Institute, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medical Bionics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- NeuroEngineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- The Bionics Institute, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- NeuroEngineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- The Bionics Institute, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Ullsten A, Eriksson M, Klässbo M, Volgsten U. Live music therapy with lullaby singing as affective support during painful procedures: A case study with microanalysis. NORDIC JOURNAL OF MUSIC THERAPY 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/08098131.2015.1131187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Alexandra Ullsten
- Department of Musicology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
- Centre for Clinical Research, Värmland County Council, Karlstad, Sweden
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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- Centre for Clinical Research, Värmland County Council, Karlstad, Sweden
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- Department of Musicology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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Vavatzanidis NK, Mürbe D, Friederici A, Hahne A. The Basis for Language Acquisition: Congenitally Deaf Infants Discriminate Vowel Length in the First Months after Cochlear Implantation. J Cogn Neurosci 2015; 27:2427-41. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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One main incentive for supplying hearing impaired children with a cochlear implant is the prospect of oral language acquisition. Only scarce knowledge exists, however, of what congenitally deaf children actually perceive when receiving their first auditory input, and specifically what speech-relevant features they are able to extract from the new modality. We therefore presented congenitally deaf infants and young children implanted before the age of 4 years with an oddball paradigm of long and short vowel variants of the syllable /ba/. We measured the EEG in regular intervals to study their discriminative ability starting with the first activation of the implant up to 8 months later. We were thus able to time-track the emerging ability to differentiate one of the most basic linguistic features that bears semantic differentiation and helps in word segmentation, namely, vowel length. Results show that already 2 months after the first auditory input, but not directly after implant activation, these early implanted children differentiate between long and short syllables. Surprisingly, after only 4 months of hearing experience, the ERPs have reached the same properties as those of the normal hearing control group, demonstrating the plasticity of the brain with respect to the new modality. We thus show that a simple but linguistically highly relevant feature such as vowel length reaches age-appropriate electrophysiological levels as fast as 4 months after the first acoustic stimulation, providing an important basis for further language acquisition.
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- Niki Katerina Vavatzanidis
- 1Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- 2Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- 2Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- 1Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- 1Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- 2Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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Ervast L, Hämäläinen JA, Zachau S, Lohvansuu K, Heinänen K, Veijola M, Heikkinen E, Suominen K, Luotonen M, Lehtihalmes M, Leppänen PHT. Event-related brain potentials to change in the frequency and temporal structure of sounds in typically developing 5-6-year-old children. Int J Psychophysiol 2015; 98:413-25. [PMID: 26342552 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2015] [Revised: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The brain's ability to recognize different acoustic cues (e.g., frequency changes in rapid temporal succession) is important for speech perception and thus for successful language development. Here we report on distinct event-related potentials (ERPs) in 5-6-year-old children recorded in a passive oddball paradigm to repeated tone pair stimuli with a frequency change in the second tone in the pair, replicating earlier findings. An occasional insertion of a third tone within the tone pair generated a more merged pattern, which has not been reported previously in 5-6-year-old children. Both types of deviations elicited pre-attentive discriminative mismatch negativity (MMN) and late discriminative negativity (LDN) responses. Temporal principal component analysis (tPCA) showed a similar topographical pattern with fronto-central negativity for MMN and LDN. We also found a previously unreported discriminative response complex (P340-N440) at the temporal electrode sites at about 140 ms and 240 ms after the frequency deviance, which we suggest reflects a discriminative processing of frequency change. The P340 response was positive with a clear radial distribution preceding the fronto-central frequency MMN by about 30 ms. The results indicate that 5-6-year-old children can detect frequency change and the occasional insertion of an additional tone in sound pairs as reflected by MMN and LDN, even with quite short within-stimulus intervals (150 ms and 50 ms). Furthermore, MMN for these changes is preceded by another response to deviancy, temporal P340, which seems to reflect a parallel but earlier discriminatory process.
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- Leena Ervast
- Logopedics and Child Language Research Center, Faculty of Humanities, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, University of Oulu, Finland; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurocognitive Unit, Oulu University Hospital, P.O. Box 50, 90029, Oulu University Hospital, Finland.
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- Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 35, 40014, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Logopedics and Child Language Research Center, Faculty of Humanities, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, University of Oulu, Finland; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurocognitive Unit, Oulu University Hospital, P.O. Box 50, 90029, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 35, 40014, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Logopedics and Child Language Research Center, Faculty of Humanities, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, University of Oulu, Finland; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurocognitive Unit, Oulu University Hospital, P.O. Box 50, 90029, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurocognitive Unit, Oulu University Hospital, P.O. Box 50, 90029, Oulu University Hospital, Finland; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Oulu University Hospital, P.O. Box 21, 90029, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
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- Logopedics and Child Language Research Center, Faculty of Humanities, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, University of Oulu, Finland; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurocognitive Unit, Oulu University Hospital, P.O. Box 50, 90029, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurocognitive Unit, Oulu University Hospital, P.O. Box 50, 90029, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Oulu University Hospital, P.O. Box 21, 90029, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
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- Logopedics and Child Language Research Center, Faculty of Humanities, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, University of Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 35, 40014, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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Anderson S, Parbery-Clark A, White-Schwoch T, Kraus N. Development of subcortical speech representation in human infants. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2015; 137:3346-55. [PMID: 26093424 PMCID: PMC4474946 DOI: 10.1121/1.4921032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2014] [Revised: 04/19/2015] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Previous studies have evaluated representation of the fundamental frequency (F0) in the frequency following response (FFR) of infants, but the development of other aspects of the FFR, such as timing and harmonics, has not yet been examined. Here, FFRs were recorded to a speech syllable in 28 infants, ages three to ten months. The F0 amplitude of the response was variable among individuals but was strongly represented in some infants as young as three months of age. The harmonics, however, showed a systematic increase in amplitude with age. In the time domain, onset, offset, and inter-peak latencies decreased with age. These results are consistent with neurophysiological studies indicating that (1) phase locking to lower frequency sounds emerges earlier in life than phase locking to higher frequency sounds and (2) myelination continues to increase in the first year of life. Early representation of low frequencies may reflect greater exposure to low frequency stimulation in utero. The improvement in temporal precision likely parallels an increase in the efficiency of neural transmission accompanied by exposure to speech during the first year of life.
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- Samira Anderson
- Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Center for Hearing and Skull Base Surgery, Swedish Neuroscience Specialists, Seattle, Washington 98122, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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Feature-specific transition from positive mismatch response to mismatch negativity in early infancy: Mismatch responses to vowels and initial consonants. Int J Psychophysiol 2015; 96:84-94. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2014] [Revised: 02/28/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Slugocki C, Trainor LJ. Cortical indices of sound localization mature monotonically in early infancy. Eur J Neurosci 2014; 40:3608-19. [PMID: 25308742 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2013] [Accepted: 09/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Christopher Slugocki
- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour; McMaster University; 1280 Main Street West Hamilton ON L8S4L8 Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour; McMaster University; 1280 Main Street West Hamilton ON L8S4L8 Canada
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Kuo YC, Lee CY, Chen MC, Liu TL, Cheng SK. The impact of spectral resolution on the mismatch response to Mandarin Chinese tones: An ERP study of cochlear implant simulations. Clin Neurophysiol 2014; 125:1568-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.11.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2013] [Revised: 10/22/2013] [Accepted: 11/23/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Yu-Ching Kuo
- Department of Special Education, University of Taipei, Taiwan; Program of Speech & Language Pathology, University of Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taiwan; Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
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- Department of Special Education, University of Taipei, Taiwan; Program of Speech & Language Pathology, University of Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taiwan; Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
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Ragó A, Honbolygó F, Róna Z, Beke A, Csépe V. Effect of maturation on suprasegmental speech processing in full- and preterm infants: a mismatch negativity study. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 2014; 35:192-202. [PMID: 24171828 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Revised: 10/02/2013] [Accepted: 10/02/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Infants born prematurely are at higher risk for later linguistic deficits present in delayed or atypical processing of phonetic and prosodic information. In order to be able to specify the nature of this atypical development, it is important to investigate the role of early experience in language perception. According to the concept of Gonzalez-Gomez and Nazzi (2012) there is a special intrauterine sensitivity to the prosodic features of languages that should have a special role in language acquisition. Therefore, we may also assume that pre- and full-term infants having months difference in intrauterine experience show different maturation patterns of processing prosodic and phonetic information present at word level. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of these differences on word stress pattern vs. phoneme information processing. Two age groups of infants (6 and 10 month-olds) were included in our study. 21 of 46 of the total of infants investigated were prematurely born with low birth weight. We used the mismatch negativity (MMN) event related brain potential (ERP) component, a widely used electrophysiological correlate of acoustic change detection, for testing the assumed developmental changes of phoneme and word stress discrimination. In a passive oddball paradigm we used a word as standard, a pseudo-word as phoneme deviant, and an illegally uttered word as stress deviant. Our results showed no differences in MMN responses in the phoneme deviant condition between the groups, meaning a relatively intact maturation of phoneme processing of preterm infants as compared to their contemporaries. However, the mismatch responses measured in the stress condition revealed significant between-group differences. These results strengthen the view that the total length of intrauterine experience influences the time of emergence of prosodic processing.
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- Anett Ragó
- Cognitive Psychology Department, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, H-1064 Budapest, Hungary; Research Group of Developmental Psychophysiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Center for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szondi utca 83-85, H-1068 Budapest, Hungary.
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Paul JA, Logan BA, Krishnan R, Heller NA, Morrison DG, Pritham UA, Tisher PW, Troese M, Brown MS, Hayes MJ. Development of auditory event-related potentials in infants prenatally exposed to methadone. Dev Psychobiol 2013; 56:1119-28. [PMID: 24019057 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2012] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Developmental features of the P2 auditory ERP in a change detection paradigm were examined in infants prenatally exposed to methadone. Opiate dependent pregnant women maintained on methadone replacement therapy were recruited during pregnancy (N = 60). Current and historical alcohol and substance use, SES, and psychiatric status were assessed with a maternal interview during the third trimester. Medical records were used to collect information regarding maternal medications, monthly urinalysis, and breathalyzer to confirm comorbid drug and alcohol exposures. Between birth and 4 months infant ERP change detection performance was evaluated on one occasion with the oddball paradigm (.2 probability oddball) using pure-tone stimuli (standard = 1 kHz and oddball = 2 kHz frequency) at midline electrode sites, Fz, Cz, Pz. Infant groups were examined in the following developmental windows: 4-15, 16-32, or 33-120 days PNA. Older groups showed increased P2 amplitude at Fz and effective change detection performance at P2 not seen in the newborn group. Developmental maturation of amplitude and stimulus discrimination for P2 has been reported in developing infants at all of the ages tested and data reported here in the older infants are consistent with typical development. However, it has been previously reported that the P2 amplitude difference is detectable in neonates; therefore, absence of a difference in P2 amplitude between stimuli in the 4-15 days group may represent impaired ERP performance by neonatal abstinence syndrome or prenatal methadone exposure.
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- Jonathan A Paul
- Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555
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Key AP, Yoder PJ. Equiprobable and Oddball Paradigms: Two Approaches for Documenting Auditory Discrimination. Dev Neuropsychol 2013; 38:402-17. [DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2012.718819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Cheng YY, Wu HC, Tzeng YL, Yang MT, Zhao LL, Lee CY. The Development of Mismatch Responses to Mandarin Lexical Tones in Early Infancy. Dev Neuropsychol 2013; 38:281-300. [PMID: 23862633 DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2013.799672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lohvansuu K, Hämäläinen JA, Tanskanen A, Bartling J, Bruder J, Honbolygó F, Schulte-Körne G, Démonet JF, Csépe V, Leppänen PHT. Separating mismatch negativity (MMN) response from auditory obligatory brain responses in school-aged children. Psychophysiology 2013; 50:640-52. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2012] [Accepted: 02/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Kaisa Lohvansuu
- Department of Psychology; University of Jyväskylä; Jyväskylä; Finland
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- Department of Psychology; University of Jyväskylä; Jyväskylä; Finland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; University of Munich; München; Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; University of Munich; München; Germany
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- Institute for Psychology; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Budapest; Hungary
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; University of Munich; München; Germany
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- Institute for Psychology; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Budapest; Hungary
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Researchers from different backgrounds have an increasing interest in investigating infant cognitive development using electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. Although EEG measurements are suitable for infants, the method poses several challenges including setting up an infant-friendly, but interference-free lab environment and designing age-appropriate stimuli and paradigms. Certain specifics of infant EEG data have to be considered when deriving event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate cognitive processes in the developing brain. The present article summarizes the practical aspects of conducting ERP research with infants and describes how researchers typically deal with the specific challenges entailed in this work.
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- Stefanie Hoehl
- Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Trainor LJ. Musical experience, plasticity, and maturation: issues in measuring developmental change using EEG and MEG. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2012; 1252:25-36. [PMID: 22524336 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06444.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The neuroscientific study of musical behavior has become a significant field of research during the last decade, and reports of this research in the popular press have caught the imagination of the public. This enterprise has also made it evident that studying the development of musical behavior can make a significant contribution to important questions in the field, such as the evolutionary origins of music, cross-cultural similarity and diversity, the effects of experience on musical processing, and relations between music and other domains. Studying musical development brings a unique set of methodological issues. We discuss a select set of these related to measurement of the electroencephalogram (EEG) and magnetoencephalogram (MEG). We use specific examples from our laboratory to illustrate the types of questions that can be answered with different data analysis techniques.
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- Laurel J Trainor
- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Key APF, Lambert EW, Aschner JL, Maitre NL. Influence of gestational age and postnatal age on speech sound processing in NICU infants. Psychophysiology 2012; 49:720-31. [PMID: 22332725 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01353.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2011] [Accepted: 12/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The study examined the effect of gestational (GA) and postnatal (PNA) age on speech sound perception in infants. Auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in response to speech sounds (syllables) in 50 infant NICU patients (born at 24-40 weeks gestation) prior to discharge. Efficiency of speech perception was quantified as absolute difference in mean amplitudes of ERPs in response to vowel (/a/-/u/) and consonant (/b/-/g/, /d/-/g/) contrasts within 150-250, 250-400, 400-700 ms after stimulus onset. Results indicated that both GA and PNA affected speech sound processing. These effects were more pronounced for consonant than vowel contrasts. Increasing PNA was associated with greater sound discrimination in infants born at or after 30 weeks GA, while minimal PNA-related changes were observed for infants with GA less than 30 weeks. Our findings suggest that a certain level of brain maturity at birth is necessary to benefit from postnatal experience in the first 4 months of life, and both gestational and postnatal ages need to be considered when evaluating infant brain responses.
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- Alexandra P F Key
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA.
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Trainor LJ. Predictive information processing is a fundamental learning mechanism present in early development: Evidence from infants. Int J Psychophysiol 2012; 83:256-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2011] [Accepted: 12/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The mismatch negativity (MMN)--a unique window to disturbed central auditory processing in ageing and different clinical conditions. Clin Neurophysiol 2011; 123:424-58. [PMID: 22169062 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.09.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 268] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2011] [Revised: 09/16/2011] [Accepted: 09/20/2011] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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In this article, we review clinical research using the mismatch negativity (MMN), a change-detection response of the brain elicited even in the absence of attention or behavioural task. In these studies, the MMN was usually elicited by employing occasional frequency, duration or speech-sound changes in repetitive background stimulation while the patient was reading or watching videos. It was found that in a large number of different neuropsychiatric, neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as in normal ageing, the MMN amplitude was attenuated and peak latency prolonged. Besides indexing decreased discrimination accuracy, these effects may also reflect, depending on the specific stimulus paradigm used, decreased sensory-memory duration, abnormal perception or attention control or, most importantly, cognitive decline. In fact, MMN deficiency appears to index cognitive decline irrespective of the specific symptomatologies and aetiologies of the different disorders involved.
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Isler JR, Tarullo AR, Grieve PG, Housman E, Kaku M, Stark RI, Fifer WP. Toward an electrocortical biomarker of cognition for newborn infants. Dev Sci 2011; 15:260-71. [PMID: 22356181 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01122.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The event-related potential (ERP) effect of mismatch negativity (MMN) was the first electrophysiological probe to evaluate cognitive processing (change detection) in newborn infants. Initial studies of MMN predicted clinical utility for this measure in identification of infants at risk for developmental cognitive deficits. These predictions have not been realized. We hypothesized that in sleeping newborn infants, measures derived from wavelet assessment of power in the MMN paradigm would be more robust markers of the brain's response to stimulus change than the ERP-derived MMN. Consistent with this premise, we found increased power in response to unpredictable and infrequent tones compared to frequent tones. These increases were present at multiple locations on the scalp over a range of latencies and frequencies and occurred even in the absence of an ERP-derived MMN. There were two predominant effects. First, theta band power was elevated at middle and late latencies (200 to 600 ms), suggesting that neocortical theta rhythms that subserve working memory in adults are present at birth. Second, late latency (500 ms) increased power to the unpredictable and infrequent tones was observed in the beta and gamma bands, suggesting that oscillations involved in adult cognition are also present in the neonate. These findings support the expectation that frequency dependent measures, such as wavelet power, will improve the prospects for a clinically useful test of cortical function early in the postnatal period.
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- Joseph R Isler
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Infant brain responses associated with reading-related skills before school and at school age. Neurophysiol Clin 2011; 42:35-41. [PMID: 22200340 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2011.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2011] [Accepted: 08/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION In Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia, we have investigated neurocognitive processes related to phonology and other risk factors of later reading problems. Here we review studies in which we have investigated whether dyslexic children with familial risk background would show atypical auditory/speech processing at birth, at six months and later before school and at school age as measured by brain event-related potentials (ERPs), and how infant ERPs are related to later pre-reading cognitive skills and literacy outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS One half of the children came from families with at least one dyslexic parent (the at-risk group), while the other half belonged to the control group without any familial background of dyslexia. RESULTS Early ERPs were correlated to kindergarten age phonological processing and letter-naming skills as well as phoneme duration perception, reading and writing skills at school age. The correlations were, in general, more consistent among at-risk children. Those at-risk children who became poor readers also differed from typical readers in the infant ERP measures at the group level. ERPs measured before school and at the 3rd grade also differed between dyslexic and typical readers. Further, speech perception at behavioural level differed between dyslexic and typical readers, but not in all dyslexic readers. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest persisting developmental differences in the organization of the neural networks sub-serving auditory and speech perception, with cascading effects on later reading related skills, in children with familial background for dyslexia. However, atypical auditory/speech processing is not likely a sufficient reason by itself for dyslexia but rather one endophenotype or risk factor.
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Friederici AD, Mueller JL, Oberecker R. Precursors to natural grammar learning: preliminary evidence from 4-month-old infants. PLoS One 2011; 6:e17920. [PMID: 21445341 PMCID: PMC3062547 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2010] [Accepted: 02/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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When learning a new language, grammar--although difficult--is very important, as grammatical rules determine the relations between the words in a sentence. There is evidence that very young infants can detect rules determining the relation between neighbouring syllables in short syllable sequences. A critical feature of all natural languages, however, is that many grammatical rules concern the dependency relation between non-neighbouring words or elements in a sentence i.e. between an auxiliary and verb inflection as in is singing. Thus, the issue of when and how children begin to recognize such non-adjacent dependencies is fundamental to our understanding of language acquisition. Here, we use brain potential measures to demonstrate that the ability to recognize dependencies between non-adjacent elements in a novel natural language is observable by the age of 4 months. Brain responses indicate that 4-month-old German infants discriminate between grammatical and ungrammatical dependencies in auditorily presented Italian sentences after only brief exposure to correct sentences of the same type. As the grammatical dependencies are realized by phonologically distinct syllables the present data most likely reflect phonologically based implicit learning mechanisms which can serve as a precursor to later grammar learning.
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- Angela D Friederici
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
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Maturation of speech discrimination in 4- to 7-yr-old children as indexed by event-related potential mismatch responses. Ear Hear 2011; 31:735-45. [PMID: 20562625 DOI: 10.1097/aud.0b013e3181e5d1a7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study examined maturation of mismatch responses (MMRs) to an English vowel contrast (/I/ versus /ε/) in 4- to 7-yr-old children. DESIGN Event-related potentials were recorded to a standard [ε] and deviant [I] vowel presented in trains of 10 stimuli at a rate of 1/650 msecs and with an intertrain interval of 1.5 secs. Each train contained two deviant vowels. Averaged responses were calculated for the infrequent (deviant) and the frequent (standard) trials for each child and compared across age groups. RESULTS Significantly greater negativity, consistent with the adult mismatch negativity (MMN), was observed to the deviants between 300 and 400 msecs for both younger (4- and 5-yr-old) and older (6- and 7-yr-old) children. This MMN-like negativity shifted earlier in latency by 25 msecs/yr with increasing age. Most of the children younger than 5.5 yrs and some of the older children also showed a positive MMR (p-MMR) peaking between 100 and 300 msecs. The p-MMR diminished in amplitude with increasing age. CONCLUSIONS Maturation of speech discrimination, as indexed by MMN, occurs more rapidly between 4 and 7 yrs of age for vowels than for tones. A p-MMR preceding the MMN also reflects discrimination in younger children and declines in amplitude with age.
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Choudhury N, Benasich AA. Maturation of auditory evoked potentials from 6 to 48 months: prediction to 3 and 4 year language and cognitive abilities. Clin Neurophysiol 2011; 122:320-38. [PMID: 20685161 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2008] [Revised: 05/26/2010] [Accepted: 05/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the maturation of long-latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEP) from 6 to 48 months in infants with a family history of language impairment (FH+) and control infants (FH-). METHODS LLAEPs of seventeen FH+ infants were compared to 28 FH- infants at 6, 9, 12, 16, 24, 36 and 48 months. Participants received a passive oddball paradigm using fast- and slow-rate non-linguistic auditory stimuli and at 36 and 48 months completed a battery of standardized language and cognitive tests. RESULTS Overall, the morphology of LLAEP responses differed for fast- versus slow-rate stimuli. Significant age-related changes in latency and amplitude were observed. Group differences, favoring FH- infants, in the rate of maturation of LLAEPs were found. Responses to fast-rate stimuli predicted language abilities at 36 and 48 months of age. CONCLUSIONS The development of LLAEP in FH+ children is modulated by differences in the rate of maturation as well as variations in temporal processing abilities. SIGNIFICANCE These findings provide evidence for the role of non-linguistic auditory processes in early language development and illustrate the utility of using a perceptual-processing skills model to further our understanding of the precursors of language development and impairment.
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- Naseem Choudhury
- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 197 University Ave., Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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Suppiej A, Mento G, Zanardo V, Franzoi M, Battistella PA, Ermani M, Bisiacchi PS. Auditory processing during sleep in preterm infants: An event related potential study. Early Hum Dev 2010; 86:807-12. [PMID: 20950966 DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2010] [Revised: 08/31/2010] [Accepted: 09/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Auditory processing during sleep was investigated in premature infants by auditory event related potentials (AERPs). Twenty-six premature infants (mean GA 30 week- range 25-35) admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit were studied, prior to discharge, in active and quiet sleep at a mean post-conceptional age of 35 weeks. Infant state was determined by behavioral observation according to standard criteria. An auditory odd-ball paradigm was used with frequently occurring 'standard' tones at 1000Hz and infrequent 'deviant' tones at 2000Hz. Waveforms were recorded at Fz, Cz, Pz, T3 and T4 scalp locations. Measurements were performed in 18 patients because 8 preterm infants were excluded since they had less than the required artifact-free deviant trials in each sleep state. The responses to standard tones were equally recorded in both active and quiet sleep, but auditory responses to deviant tones consisting of an increased frontal negativity in the time period from 200 to 300ms after the stimulus were recorded only in active sleep. A significant effect of electrode placement, for frontal location by sleep condition and sleep condition by 50ms time windows was shown by repeated measures analyses of variance. The significance of these findings on evoked potential methodology in preterm infants admitted to neonatal intensive care unit is discussed.
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- Agnese Suppiej
- Child Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Padova, 35100 Padova, Italy.
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Leppänen PHT, Hämäläinen JA, Salminen HK, Eklund KM, Guttorm TK, Lohvansuu K, Puolakanaho A, Lyytinen H. Newborn brain event-related potentials revealing atypical processing of sound frequency and the subsequent association with later literacy skills in children with familial dyslexia. Cortex 2010; 46:1362-76. [PMID: 20656284 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2008] [Revised: 07/16/2009] [Accepted: 09/25/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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