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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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Campos A, Tuomainen J, Tuomainen O. Mismatch Responses to Speech Contrasts in Preschoolers with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Brain Sci 2023; 14:42. [PMID: 38248257 PMCID: PMC10813673 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14010042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Revised: 12/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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This study compared cortical responses to speech in preschoolers with typical language development (TLD) and with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). We investigated whether top-down language effects modulate speech perception in young children in an adult-like manner. We compared cortical mismatch responses (MMRs) during the passive perception of speech contrasts in three groups of participants: preschoolers with TLD (n = 11), preschoolers with DLD (n = 16), and adults (n = 20). We also measured children's phonological skills and investigated whether they are associated with the cortical discrimination of phonemic changes involving different linguistic complexities. The results indicated top-down language effects in adults, with enhanced cortical discrimination of lexical stimuli but not of non-words. In preschoolers, the TLD and DLD groups did not differ in the MMR measures, and no top-down effects were detected. Moreover, we found no association between MMRs and phonological skills, even though the DLD group's phonological skills were significantly lower. Our findings suggest that top-down language modulations in speech discrimination may not be present during early childhood, and that children with DLD may not exhibit cortical speech perception deficits. The lack of association between phonological and MMR measures indicates that further research is needed to understand the link between language skills and cortical activity in preschoolers.
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- Ana Campos
- UCL Ear Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, London WC1N 1PF, UK;
- Carrera de Fonoaudiología, Universidad San Sebastián, Lota 2465, Santiago 7510602, Chile
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- Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, London WC1N 1PF, UK;
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- Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany;
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Themas L, Lippus P, Padrik M, Kask L, Kreegipuu K. Maturation of the mismatch response in pre-school children: Systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023; 153:105366. [PMID: 37633625 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105366] [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: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/28/2023]
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Event-related potentials (ERPs), specifically the Mismatch Response (MMR), holds promise for investigating auditory maturation in children. It has the potential to predict language development and distinguish between language-impaired and typically developing groups. However, summarizing the MMR's developmental trajectory in typically developing children remains challenging despite numerous studies. This pioneering meta-analysis outlines changes in MMR amplitude among typically developing children, while offering methodological best-practices. Our search identified 51 articles for methodology analysis and 21 for meta-analysis, involving 0-8-year-old participants from 2000 to 2022. Risk of Bias assessment and methodology analysis revealed shortcomings in control condition usage and reporting of study confounders. The meta-analysis results were inconsistent, indicating large effect sizes in some conditions and no effect sizes in others. Subgroup analysis revealed the main effects of age and brain region, as well as an interaction of age and time-window of the MMR. Future research requires a specific protocol, larger samples, and replication studies to deepen the understanding of the auditory discrimination maturation process in children.
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- Liis Themas
- University of Tartu, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, Jakobi 2, 51005 Tartu, Estonia; University of Tartu, Institute of Psychology, Näituse 2, 50409 Tartu, Estonia
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- University of Tartu, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, Jakobi 2, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
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- University of Tartu, Institute of Education, Jakobi 5, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
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- University of Tartu, Institute of Psychology, Näituse 2, 50409 Tartu, Estonia
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- University of Tartu, Institute of Psychology, Näituse 2, 50409 Tartu, Estonia.
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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: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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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Torppa R, Kuuluvainen S, Lipsanen J. The development of cortical processing of speech differs between children with cochlear implants and normal hearing and changes with parental singing. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:976767. [PMID: 36507354 PMCID: PMC9731313 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.976767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Objective The aim of the present study was to investigate speech processing development in children with normal hearing (NH) and cochlear implants (CI) groups using a multifeature event-related potential (ERP) paradigm. Singing is associated to enhanced attention and speech perception. Therefore, its connection to ERPs was investigated in the CI group. Methods The paradigm included five change types in a pseudoword: two easy- (duration, gap) and three difficult-to-detect (vowel, pitch, intensity) with CIs. The positive mismatch responses (pMMR), mismatch negativity (MMN), P3a and late differentiating negativity (LDN) responses of preschoolers (below 6 years 9 months) and schoolchildren (above 6 years 9 months) with NH or CIs at two time points (T1, T2) were investigated with Linear Mixed Modeling (LMM). For the CI group, the association of singing at home and ERP development was modeled with LMM. Results Overall, responses elicited by the easy- and difficult to detect changes differed between the CI and NH groups. Compared to the NH group, the CI group had smaller MMNs to vowel duration changes and gaps, larger P3a responses to gaps, and larger pMMRs and smaller LDNs to vowel identity changes. Preschoolers had smaller P3a responses and larger LDNs to gaps, and larger pMMRs to vowel identity changes than schoolchildren. In addition, the pMMRs to gaps increased from T1 to T2 in preschoolers. More parental singing in the CI group was associated with increasing pMMR and less parental singing with decreasing P3a amplitudes from T1 to T2. Conclusion The multifeature paradigm is suitable for assessing cortical speech processing development in children. In children with CIs, cortical discrimination is often reflected in pMMR and P3a responses, and in MMN and LDN responses in children with NH. Moreover, the cortical speech discrimination of children with CIs develops late, and over time and age, their speech sound change processing changes as does the processing of children with NH. Importantly, multisensory activities such as parental singing can lead to improvement in the discrimination and attention shifting toward speech changes in children with CIs. These novel results should be taken into account in future research and rehabilitation.
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- Ritva Torppa
- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland,Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland,Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland,Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Later but Not Weaker: Neural Categorization of Native Vowels of Children at Familial Risk of Dyslexia. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12030412. [PMID: 35326368 PMCID: PMC8946763 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12030412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Although allophonic speech processing has been hypothesized to be a contributing factor in developmental dyslexia, experimental evidence is limited and inconsistent. The current study compared the categorization of native similar sounding vowels of typically developing (TD) children and children at familial risk (FR) of dyslexia. EEG response was collected in a non-attentive passive oddball paradigm from 35 TD and 35 FR Dutch 20-month-old infants who were matched on vocabulary. The children were presented with two nonwords “giep” [ɣip] and “gip” [ɣIp] that contrasted solely with respect to the vowel. In the multiple-speaker condition, both nonwords were produced by twelve different speakers while in the single-speaker condition, single tokens of each word were used as stimuli. For both conditions and for both groups, infant positive mismatch response (p-MMR) was elicited, and the p-MMR amplitude was comparable between the two groups, although the FR children had a later p-MMR peak than the TD children in the multiple-speaker condition. These findings indicate that FR children are able to categorize speech sounds, but that they may do so in a more effortful way than TDs.
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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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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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Yu YH, Shafer VL. Neural Representation of the English Vowel Feature [High]: Evidence From /ε/ vs. /ɪ/. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:629517. [PMID: 33897394 PMCID: PMC8063109 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.629517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Many studies have observed modulation of the amplitude of the neural index mismatch negativity (MMN) related to which member of a phoneme contrast [phoneme A, phoneme B] serves as the frequent (standard) and which serves as the infrequent (deviant) stimulus (i.e., AAAB vs. BBBA) in an oddball paradigm. Explanations for this amplitude modulation range from acoustic to linguistic factors. We tested whether exchanging the role of the mid vowel /ε/ vs. high vowel /ɪ/ of English modulated MMN amplitude and whether the pattern of modulation was compatible with an underspecification account, in which the underspecified height values are [−high] and [−low]. MMN was larger for /ε/ as the deviant, but only when compared across conditions to itself as the standard. For the within-condition comparison, MMN was larger to /ɪ/ deviant minus /ε/ standard than to the reverse. A condition order effect was also observed. MMN amplitude was smaller to the deviant stimulus if it had previously served as the standard. In addition, the amplitudes of late discriminative negativity (LDN) showed similar asymmetry. LDN was larger for deviant /ε/ than deviant /ɪ/ when compared to themselves as the standard. These findings were compatible with an underspecification account, but also with other accounts, such as the Natural Referent Vowel model and a prototype model; we also suggest that non-linguistic factors need to be carefully considered as additional sources of speech processing asymmetries.
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- Yan H Yu
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, St. John's University, Queens, NY, United States
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- The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States
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Leung JH, Purdy SC, Corballis PM. Improving Emotion Perception in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Computer-Based Training and Hearing Amplification. Brain Sci 2021; 11:469. [PMID: 33917776 PMCID: PMC8068114 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11040469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2021] [Revised: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience challenges with social communication, often involving emotional elements of language. This may stem from underlying auditory processing difficulties, especially when incoming speech is nuanced or complex. This study explored the effects of auditory training on social perception abilities of children with ASD. The training combined use of a remote-microphone hearing system and computerized emotion perception training. At baseline, children with ASD had poorer social communication scores and delayed mismatch negativity (MMN) compared to typically developing children. Behavioral results, measured pre- and post-intervention, revealed increased social perception scores in children with ASD to the extent that they outperformed their typically developing peers post-intervention. Electrophysiology results revealed changes in neural responses to emotional speech stimuli. Post-intervention, mismatch responses of children with ASD more closely resembled their neurotypical peers, with shorter MMN latencies, a significantly heightened P2 wave, and greater differentiation of emotional stimuli, consistent with their improved behavioral results. This study sets the foundation for further investigation into connections between auditory processing difficulties and social perception and communication for individuals with ASD, and provides a promising indication that combining amplified hearing and computer-based targeted social perception training using emotional speech stimuli may have neuro-rehabilitative benefits.
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- Joan H. Leung
- School of Psychology, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand; (S.C.P.); (P.M.C.)
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Engström E, Kallioinen P, Nakeva von Mentzer C, Lindgren M, Sahlén B, Lyxell B, Ors M, Uhlén I. Auditory event-related potentials and mismatch negativity in children with hearing loss using hearing aids or cochlear implants - A three-year follow-up study. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2021; 140:110519. [PMID: 33268013 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2020.110519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Revised: 11/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/22/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The primary aim was to examine how event-related potentials (ERPs) and mismatch negativity (MMN) change and develop over time among children with hearing loss (HL) using hearing aids (HAs) or cochlear implants (CIs). Children with normal hearing (NH) were tested as a reference group. METHODS This three-year follow-up study included 13 children with sensorineural HL (SNHL); 7 children using bilateral HAs and 6 children using CIs; and 10 children with NH as a reference group. ERPs were recorded at baseline and after three years. At time for the original study the children were approximately 5-8 years old and at the follow-up study 8-11 years old. ERP recordings and data processing were identical in both sessions. A standard stimulus alternated with five different deviants (gap, intensity, pitch, location and duration), presented in a pseudorandom sequence, thus following the multi-feature paradigm, Optimum-1. MMN was calculated from the average ERP of each deviant minus the standard stimuli. Repeated measures ANOVA was used for the statistical analyses and the results were based on samples within a specific time interval; 80-224 ms. RESULTS There was a statistically significant difference in the obligatory responses between the NH and HA groups at baseline, but this difference disappeared after three years in our follow-up study. The children with HA also showed a significant difference in mean ERP at baseline compared to follow-up, and significant differences between the deviants at follow-up but not at baseline. This suggests an improvement over time among the children with HAs. On the other hand, the children with CIs did not differ from the NH children at baseline, but after three years their mean ERP was significantly lower compared to both the children with HA and NH, indicating a reduced development of the central auditory system in this age span among the children with CIs. Regarding MMN, there was an interaction between the duration deviant and time for the children with HA, also indicating a possible improvement over time among the HA children. CONCLUSIONS This three-year follow-up study shows neurophysiological differences between children with HL and children with NH. The results suggest a delay in the central auditory processing among the HA children compared to children with NH, but a possible catch-up, over time, and this potential may be worth to be utilized. Regarding the CI children, similar improvement in this age span is missing, meaning there are differences between the subgroups of children with HL, i.e. the children with HAs vs. CIs. The results highlight the importance of distinguishing between subgroups of children with HL in further research.
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- Elisabet Engström
- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Otoneurology, Karolinska University Hospital, 141 86, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University, 221 00, Lund, Sweden; Department of Psychology, Lund University, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
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- Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University, 221 00, Lund, Sweden; Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Logopedics, Phoniatrics & Audiology, Lasarettsgatan 21, 22185, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Skåne University Hospit, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Otoneurology, Karolinska University Hospital, 141 86, Stockholm, Sweden
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Engström E, Kallioinen P, Lindgren M, Nakeva von Mentzer C, Sahlén B, Lyxell B, Uhlén I. Computer-assisted reading intervention for children with hearing impairment using cochlear implants: Effects on auditory event-related potentials and mismatch negativity. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2020; 137:110229. [PMID: 32896345 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2020.110229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2020] [Revised: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 06/23/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The primary aim was to find out whether a computer-assisted reading intervention program with a phonic approach can affect event-related (ERPs) and mismatch negativity (MMN) in hearing impaired (HI) children using cochlear implants (CIs). METHODS This study involved a test group of 15 HI children with CIs and a control group of 14 normal hearing (NH) children. The children were 4 years and 10 months to 8 years and 1 month old. ERPs were recorded immediately before and after 4 weeks of training with a computer-assisted reading intervention, GraphoGame. A multi-feature paradigm, Optimum-1, was used, i.e. a standard stimulus alternated with five different deviants: gap intensity, pitch, location and duration. MMN was calculated from the mean amplitude ERP of each deviant minus the standard stimulus response in a specific time interval, 80 - 224 ms. Repeated measures ANOVA was used for the statistical analysis. RESULTS The results did not show any significant changes with the computerassisted training in the ERPs and MMNs among the HI children with CIs. The presence of both MMN and a positive mismatch response (pMMR), which might reflect an immaturity, complicates interpreting the results in this age group. Individually, there was a mix of MMNs and pMMRs among all participants, pre and post training, and the change of each deviant after intervention was not predictable. CONCLUSIONS There are no significant changes in ERP or MMN after intervention, however lack of significances must be interpreted with caution. Besides the presence of both MMNs and pMMRs, only modest changes are to be expected on an individual basis and small samples hinder making statistical conclusions regarding the training's effects. The study contributes to some more descriptive pieces of ERPs and MMNs among the HI children with CIs. The issues of MMN and pMMR are highlighted.
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- Elisabet Engström
- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Otoneurology, Karolinska University Hospital, 141 86, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Psychology, Lund University, 221 00, Lund, Sweden; Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University, 221 00, Lund, Sweden.
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- Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Logopedics, Phoniatrics & Audiology, Lasarettsgatan 21, 22185, Lund, Sweden; Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University, 221 00, Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Behavorial Sciences and Learning, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Otoneurology, Karolinska University Hospital, 141 86, Stockholm, Sweden.
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David C, Roux S, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Ferré S, Gomot M. Brain responses to change in phonological structures of varying complexity in children and adults. Psychophysiology 2020; 57:e13621. [PMID: 32557624 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Language-related change-detection processes are often investigated using syllables that are very simple in terms of phonological structure. However, phonological complexity is known to be challenging for young typically developing children and pathological populations. We investigated brain correlates of phonological processing and their age-related changes with a passive change-detection protocol including stimuli of varying phonological complexity, which allowed comparing responses to simple and complex phonological deviancies. Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and Late Discriminative Negativity (LDN) responses were recorded in both school-age children (n = 22) and adults (n = 24). MMN was similar for simple and complex phonological deviancy in both groups, whereas LDN appeared to be modulated by phonological complexity, albeit with different patterns according to age. In response to complex phonological change, children displayed a larger LDN response with a typical fronto-central scalp distribution, while adults showed an additional right-posterior activity but no larger amplitude than for simple change. Thus, LDN appears to be a good electrophysiological index of phonological complexity processing. This study validated the use of the LDN through this protocol for the investigation of phonological complexity processing throughout the development.
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- Céline David
- UMR1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France
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- UMR1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France
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- UMR1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France.,Centre Universitaire de Pédopsychiatrie, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France
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- UMR1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France
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- UMR1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France
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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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Datta H, Hestvik A, Vidal N, Tessel C, Hisagi M, Wróbleski M, Shafer V. Automaticity of speech processing in early bilingual adults and children. BILINGUALISM (CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND) 2020; 23:429-445. [PMID: 32905492 PMCID: PMC7469929 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728919000099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We examine whether early acquisition of a second language (L2) leads to native-like neural processing of phonemic contrasts that are absent in the L1. Four groups (adult and child monolingual speakers of English; adult and child early bilingual speakers of English and Spanish, exposed to both languages before 5 years of age) participated in a study comparing the English /I/ - /ε/ contrast. Neural measures of automatic change detection (Mismatch Negativity, MMN) and attention (Processing Negativity, PN and Late Negativity, LN) were measured by varying whether participants tracked the stimulus stream or not. We observed no effect of bilingualism on the MMN, but adult bilinguals differed significantly from adult monolinguals on neural indices of attention. The child bilinguals were indistinguishable from their monolingual peers. This suggest that learning a L2 before five years of age leads to native-like phoneme discrimination, but bilinguals develop increased attentional sensitivity to speech sounds.
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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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Zhang J, Meng Y, Wu C, Xiang YT, Yuan Z. Non-speech and speech pitch perception among Cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder: An ERP study. Neurosci Lett 2019; 703:205-212. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2019.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Engström E, Kallioinen P, Nakeva von Mentzer C, Lindgren M, Ors M, Sahlén B, Lyxell B, Uhlén I. Computer-assisted reading intervention for children with sensorineural hearing loss using hearing aids: Effects on auditory event-related potentials and mismatch negativity. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2019; 117:17-25. [PMID: 30579075 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2018.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Revised: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 11/02/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The primary aim was to investigate whether computer-assisted reading intervention somehow can affect event-related potentials (ERP) and mismatch negativity (MMN) in hearing impaired (HI) children with hearing aids (HAs) and normal hearing (NH) children. METHODS The study included 15 HI children with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) using bilateral HAs and 14 NH children as a reference group; all children between the ages of 5 and 8. A multi-feature MMN-paradigm, Optimum-1, with a standard stimulus alternating with 5 different deviants was used. ERPs were recorded pre and post intervention, i.e. one month of repeatedly computer-assisted training (GraphoGame). MMN was calculated from the average ERP of each deviant minus standard. Data were based on samples within a specific time interval, 80-224 ms, and repeated measures ANOVA was used to analyze possible interactions. RESULTS There was a significant difference between groups before training, though, the mean obligatory responses or MMN was not statistically significantly different before versus after training, neither among the NH nor the HI children. Further, the HI children did generally achieve lower levels in GraphoGame compared to the NH children. Altogether, our findings indicate differences between the groups and that training may affect the neurophysiological processing in the brain, gaining the HI children. Both MMN and positive mismatch response (pMMR) were seen among both the HA and NH children, irrespective to deviant type. Individually, changes of the MMN and pMMR after training seem unpredictable. CONCLUSION There are statistically significant differences in both the obligatory responses in ERP and the MMNs between the NH and HI groups before the computer-assisted training. Though, these differences disappear after the intervention. This suggests possible training effects regarding the central auditory processing among the HI children.
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- Elisabet Engström
- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Otoneurology, Karolinska University Hospital, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Behavorial Sciences and Learning, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
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- Department of Psychology, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden; Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Skåne University Hospital, 221 85 Lund, Sweden; Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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- Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Logopedics, Phoniatrics & Audiology, Lasarettsgatan 21, 22 185 Lund, Sweden; Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Behavorial Sciences and Learning, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Otoneurology, Karolinska University Hospital, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Li Y, Shen M, Long M. A preliminary study of auditory mismatch response on the day of cochlear implant activation in children with hearing aids prior implantation. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0210457. [PMID: 30615690 PMCID: PMC6322786 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Accepted: 12/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Objective The study aimed to explore the characteristics of auditory mismatch response (MMR) in hearing-impaired children on the day when the cochlear implant (CI) was started (power-up) and the speech processor was programmed, and to investigate the effects of wearing hearing aids (HAs) before cochlear implantation on the early stage of postoperative auditory cortex plasticity, providing some demonstrative data for the objective evaluation of postoperative early auditory ability in children who underwent cochlear implantation. Methods The participants were 34 children with profound sensorineural hearing loss, who underwent cochlear implantation. The classical passive Oddball paradigm was adopted, using a pair of vowels which only have different lexical tones. The standard stimulus was /a2/ and the devious stimulus was /a4/. Results 1) On the day of CI activation, the auditory MMR has been elicited in 30 children; the MMR incidence was 88%. 2) We observed both positive and negative auditory MMR waveforms. And logistic regression analysis showed that it was influenced by the age at cochlear implantation. 3) The duration with HA before surgery significantly influenced the MMR latency. The children with longer duration of HA use have much earlier latency of MMR. 4) There was a significant positive correlation between the age at HA use initiation and MMR amplitude. Earlier initial HA use was associated with smaller amplitude. Conclusions MMR in response to Mandarin lexical tone can be recorded in most pediatric patients who had experience with HA on the day of CI power up. MMR is closely associated with the age at cochlear implantation, duration of HA use, and the age at HA use initiation. Hearing-impaired children should wear HA as early as possible and ensure consistent usage.
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- Yuan Li
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
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- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (ML); (MS)
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- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (ML); (MS)
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Linnavalli T, Putkinen V, Huotilainen M, Tervaniemi M. Maturation of Speech-Sound ERPs in 5-6-Year-Old Children: A Longitudinal Study. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:814. [PMID: 30459549 PMCID: PMC6232289 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The maturation of 5-6-year-old children's auditory discrimination - indicated by the development of the auditory event-related-potentials (ERPs) - has not been previously studied in longitudinal settings. For the first time, we present here the results based on extensive dataset collected from 75 children. We followed the 5- to 6-year-olds for 20 months and measured their ERPs four times with the same multifeature paradigm with phonemic stimuli. The amplitude of the mismatch negativity (MMN) response increased during this time for vowel, vowel duration and frequency changes. Furthermore, the P3a component started to mature toward adult-like positivity for the vowel, intensity and frequency deviants and the late discriminative negativity (LDN) component decreased with age for vowel and intensity deviants. All the changes in the components seemed to happen during the second follow-up year, when Finnish children are taught letter symbols and other preliminary academic skills before going to school at the age of seven. Therefore, further studies are needed to clarify if these changes in the auditory discrimination are purely age-related or due to increasing linguistic knowledge of the children.
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- Tanja Linnavalli
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Cicero Learning, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Cicero Learning, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Cicero Learning, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Mueller JL, Friederici AD, Männel C. Developmental changes in automatic rule-learning mechanisms across early childhood. Dev Sci 2018; 22:e12700. [PMID: 29949219 DOI: 10.1111/desc.12700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Infants' ability to learn complex linguistic regularities from early on has been revealed by electrophysiological studies indicating that 3-month-olds, but not adults, can automatically detect non-adjacent dependencies between syllables. While different ERP responses in adults and infants suggest that both linguistic rule learning and its link to basic auditory processing undergo developmental changes, systematic investigations of the developmental trajectories are scarce. In the present study, we assessed 2- and 4-year-olds' ERP indicators of pitch discrimination and linguistic rule learning in a syllable-based oddball design. To test for the relation between auditory discrimination and rule learning, ERP responses to pitch changes were used as predictor for potential linguistic rule-learning effects. Results revealed that 2-year-olds, but not 4-year-olds, showed ERP markers of rule learning. Although, 2-year-olds' rule learning was not dependent on differences in pitch perception, 4-year-old children demonstrated a dependency, such that those children who showed more pronounced responses to pitch changes still showed an effect of rule learning. These results narrow down the developmental decline of the ability for automatic linguistic rule learning to the age between 2 and 4 years, and, moreover, point towards a strong modification of this change by auditory processes. At an age when the ability of automatic linguistic rule learning phases out, rule learning can still be observed in children with enhanced auditory responses. The observed interrelations are plausible causes for age-of-acquisition effects and inter-individual differences in language learning.
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- Jutta L Mueller
- Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.,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
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- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig and Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, Germany
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Piano training enhances the neural processing of pitch and improves speech perception in Mandarin-speaking children. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E6630-E6639. [PMID: 29941577 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808412115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Musical training confers advantages in speech-sound processing, which could play an important role in early childhood education. To understand the mechanisms of this effect, we used event-related potential and behavioral measures in a longitudinal design. Seventy-four Mandarin-speaking children aged 4-5 y old were pseudorandomly assigned to piano training, reading training, or a no-contact control group. Six months of piano training improved behavioral auditory word discrimination in general as well as word discrimination based on vowels compared with the controls. The reading group yielded similar trends. However, the piano group demonstrated unique advantages over the reading and control groups in consonant-based word discrimination and in enhanced positive mismatch responses (pMMRs) to lexical tone and musical pitch changes. The improved word discrimination based on consonants correlated with the enhancements in musical pitch pMMRs among the children in the piano group. In contrast, all three groups improved equally on general cognitive measures, including tests of IQ, working memory, and attention. The results suggest strengthened common sound processing across domains as an important mechanism underlying the benefits of musical training on language processing. In addition, although we failed to find far-transfer effects of musical training to general cognition, the near-transfer effects to speech perception establish the potential for musical training to help children improve their language skills. Piano training was not inferior to reading training on direct tests of language function, and it even seemed superior to reading training in enhancing consonant discrimination.
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Brain mechanisms involved in angry prosody change detection in school-age children and adults, revealed by electrophysiology. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2018; 18:748-763. [DOI: 10.3758/s13415-018-0602-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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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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Dinga S, Wu D, Huang S, Wu C, Wang X, Shi J, Hu Y, Liang C, Zhang F, Lu M, Leiken K, Xiang J. Neuromagnetic correlates of audiovisual word processing in the developing brain. Int J Psychophysiol 2018; 128:7-21. [PMID: 29580903 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Revised: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The brain undergoes enormous changes during childhood. Little is known about how the brain develops to serve word processing. The objective of the present study was to investigate the maturational changes of word processing in children and adolescents using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Responses to a word processing task were investigated in sixty healthy participants. Each participant was presented with simultaneous visual and auditory word pairs in "match" and "mismatch" conditions. The patterns of neuromagnetic activation from MEG recordings were analyzed at both sensor and source levels. Topography and source imaging revealed that word processing transitioned from bilateral connections to unilateral connections as age increased from 6 to 17 years old. Correlation analyses of language networks revealed that the path length of word processing networks negatively correlated with age (r = -0.833, p < 0.0001), while the connection strength (r = 0.541, p < 0.01) and the clustering coefficient (r = 0.705, p < 0.001) of word processing networks were positively correlated with age. In addition, males had more visual connections, whereas females had more auditory connections. The correlations between gender and path length, gender and connection strength, and gender and clustering coefficient demonstrated a developmental trend without reaching statistical significance. The results indicate that the developmental trajectory of word processing is gender specific. Since the neuromagnetic signatures of these gender-specific paths to adult word processing were determined using non-invasive, objective, and quantitative methods, the results may play a key role in understanding language impairments in pediatric patients in the future.
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- Samantha Dinga
- Psychology Department, University of Rochester, 500 Joseph C Wilson Blvd, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; MEG Center, Department of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- MEG Center, Department of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- MEG Center, Department of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA.
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Yoshimura Y, Kikuchi M, Hayashi N, Hiraishi H, Hasegawa C, Takahashi T, Oi M, Remijn GB, Ikeda T, Saito DN, Kumazaki H, Minabe Y. Altered human voice processing in the frontal cortex and a developmental language delay in 3- to 5-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17116. [PMID: 29215027 PMCID: PMC5719344 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17058-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The inferior frontal and superior temporal areas in the left hemisphere are crucial for human language processing. In the present study, we investigated the magnetic mismatch field (MMF) evoked by voice stimuli in 3- to 5-year-old typically developing (TD) children and children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using child-customized magnetoencephalography (MEG). The children with ASD exhibited significantly decreased activation in the left superior temporal gyrus compared with the TD children for the MMF amplitude. If we classified the children with ASD according to the presence of a speech onset delay (ASD - SOD and ASD - NoSOD, respectively) and compared them with the TD children, both ASD groups exhibited decreased activation in the left superior temporal gyrus compared with the TD children. In contrast, the ASD - SOD group exhibited increased activity in the left frontal cortex (i.e., pars orbitalis) compared with the other groups. For all children with ASD, there was a significant negative correlation between the MMF amplitude in the left pars orbitalis and language performance. This investigation is the first to show a significant difference in two distinct MMF regions in ASD – SOD children compared with TD children.
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- Yuko Yoshimura
- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan.
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- Gunma Prefectural College of Health Science, Maebashi, 371-0052, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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- Health Administration Center, University of Fukui, Fukui, 910-1193, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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- International Education Center, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 815-8540, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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Uhlén I, Engström E, Kallioinen P, Nakeva von Mentzer C, Lyxell B, Sahlén B, Lindgren M, Ors M. Using a multi-feature paradigm to measure mismatch responses to minimal sound contrasts in children with cochlear implants and hearing aids. Scand J Psychol 2017; 58:409-421. [DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2016] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Inger Uhlén
- Department of Hearing and Balance; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet (CLINTEC); Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Hearing and Balance; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet (CLINTEC); Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning; Swedish Institute for Disability Research; Linköping University; Linköping Sweden
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- Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning; Swedish Institute for Disability Research; Linköping University; Linköping Sweden
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- Linneaus Centre; Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University; Lund Sweden
- Department of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology; Lund University; Skåne University Hospital; Lund Sweden
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- Linneaus Centre; Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University; Lund Sweden
- Department of Psychology; Lund University; Lund Sweden
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- Linneaus Centre; Cognition, Communication & Learning, Lund University; Lund Sweden
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology; Lund University; Skåne University Hospital; Lund Sweden
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Phoneme processing skills are reflected in children's MMN responses. Neuropsychologia 2017; 101:76-84. [PMID: 28506807 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Revised: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Phonological awareness (PA), the core contributor in phoneme processing abilities, has a link to later reading skills in children. However, the associations between PA and neural auditory discrimination are not clear. We used event-related potential (ERP) methodology and neuropsychological testing to monitor the neurocognitive basis of phonological awareness in typically developing children. We measured 5-6-year-old children's (N=70) phoneme processing, word completion and perceptual reasoning skills and compared their test results to their brain responses to phonemic changes, separately for each test. We found that children performing better in Phoneme processing test showed larger mismatch negativity (MMN) responses than children scoring lower in the same test. In contrast, no correspondence between test scores and brain responses was found for Auditory closure. Thus, the results suggest that automatic auditory change detection is linked to phoneme awareness in preschool children.
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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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Chen Y, Tsao FM, Liu HM. Developmental changes in brain response to speech perception in late-talking children: A longitudinal MMR study. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2016; 19:190-9. [PMID: 27061247 PMCID: PMC6988612 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2016.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2015] [Revised: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 03/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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This study used a longitudinal design to examine the development of mismatch responses (MMRs) to Mandarin lexical tones, an index of neural speech discriminative responses, in late talkers and typical controls at 3, 5, and 6 years of age. Lexical tones are phonetic suprasegments that distinguish the lexical meanings of syllables in tonal languages. The 2 year-old late talkers were later divided into persistent language delay and late bloomer groups according to their performance on standardized language tests at 4 years. Results showed that children with persistent language delay demonstrated more positive mismatch responses than the typical controls at 3 years of age. At the age of 5, no group difference were found in the amplitude of MMRs, but the maturation of MMRs could be observed in the change of topography, with more prominent negative response in the frontal sites only in the typical group. Correlations were found between the index of MMRs at 3 years and children's language performance outcome at 6 years. Our results indicate that the development of fine-grained tone representations is delayed in late-talking children between 3 and 5 years and may be one of the underlying mechanisms which associated with later language performance.
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- Yuchun Chen
- Center of Teacher Education, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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- Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, 162 Ho-Ping East RD. Sec. #1, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
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Ferjan Ramírez N, Ramírez RR, Clarke M, Taulu S, Kuhl PK. Speech discrimination in 11‐month‐old bilingual and monolingual infants: a magnetoencephalography study. Dev Sci 2016; 20. [DOI: 10.1111/desc.12427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2015] [Accepted: 02/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences University of Washington USA
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- Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences University of Washington USA
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- Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences University of Washington USA
- Department of Physics University of Washington USA
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- Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences University of Washington USA
- Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences University of Washington USA
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Kuuluvainen S, Alku P, Makkonen T, Lipsanen J, Kujala T. Cortical speech and non-speech discrimination in relation to cognitive measures in preschool children. Eur J Neurosci 2016; 43:738-50. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2015] [Revised: 11/20/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Soila Kuuluvainen
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit; Institute of Behavioural Sciences; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics; Aalto University; Helsinki Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit; Institute of Behavioural Sciences; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit; Institute of Behavioural Sciences; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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Weismüller B, Thienel R, Youlden AM, Fulham R, Koch M, Schall U. Psychophysiological Correlates of Developmental Changes in Healthy and Autistic Boys. J Autism Dev Disord 2016; 45:2168-75. [PMID: 25663626 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-015-2385-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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This study investigated neurodevelopmental changes in sound processing by recording mismatch negativity (MMN) in response to various degrees of sound complexity in 18 mildly to moderately autistic versus 15 healthy boys aged between 6 and 15 years. Autistic boys presented with lower IQ and poor performance on a range of executive and social function measures when compared to their healthy counterparts. We found that MMN in response to duration deviants was less lateralized in the clinical group whereas larger amplitudes correlated with advanced age, thus capturing neurodevelopmental changes. Larger MMN in response to speech-like sound deviants was associated with better verbal fluency and executive function performance, respectively, but did not reliably discriminate the two groups.
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- Benjamin Weismüller
- Priority Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Strotseva-Feinschmidt A, Cunitz K, Friederici AD, Gunter TC. Auditory Discrimination Between Function Words in Children and Adults: A Mismatch Negativity Study. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1930. [PMID: 26733918 PMCID: PMC4686640 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Previous behavioral studies showed that it is not until around the age of seven that German children reliably use case markers for the interpretation of complex sentences. Some explanations of this late development suggested that children might have difficulties in perceptual differentiation between function words that carry case information. We tested this hypothesis by using the neurophysiological index of pre-attentive discrimination, the mismatch negativity (MMN). Our data showed that children at the age of 3 years are able to automatically discriminate between the two determiner forms der and den when presented out of sentential context. The determiner form der elicited a more mature MMN response in children than the form den. In adults, the MMN pattern also differed with der showing an earlier peak than den. These findings indicate that der is easier to process than den, which in turn is related to the occurrence frequency of the determiner forms in language.
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- Anna Strotseva-Feinschmidt
- 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
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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
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Electrocortical Dynamics in Children with a Language-Learning Impairment Before and After Audiovisual Training. Brain Topogr 2015; 29:459-76. [PMID: 26671710 PMCID: PMC4829628 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-015-0466-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Detecting and discriminating subtle and rapid sound changes in the speech environment is a fundamental prerequisite of language processing, and deficits in this ability have frequently been observed in individuals with language-learning impairments (LLI). One approach to studying associations between dysfunctional auditory dynamics and LLI, is to implement a training protocol tapping into this potential while quantifying pre- and post-intervention status. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are highly sensitive to the brain correlates of these dynamic changes and are therefore ideally suited for examining hypotheses regarding dysfunctional auditory processes. In this study, ERP measurements to rapid tone sequences (standard and deviant tone pairs) along with behavioral language testing were performed in 6- to 9-year-old LLI children (n = 21) before and after audiovisual training. A non-treatment group of children with typical language development (n = 12) was also assessed twice at a comparable time interval. The results indicated that the LLI group exhibited considerable gains on standardized measures of language. In terms of ERPs, we found evidence of changes in the LLI group specifically at the level of the P2 component, later than 250 ms after the onset of the second stimulus in the deviant tone pair. These changes suggested enhanced discrimination of deviant from standard tone sequences in widespread cortices, in LLI children after training.
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Schaadt G, Männel C, van der Meer E, Pannekamp A, Oberecker R, Friederici AD. Present and past: Can writing abilities in school children be associated with their auditory discrimination capacities in infancy? RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 2015; 47:318-333. [PMID: 26479824 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2015] [Revised: 09/24/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Literacy acquisition is highly associated with auditory processing abilities, such as auditory discrimination. The event-related potential Mismatch Response (MMR) is an indicator for cortical auditory discrimination abilities and it has been found to be reduced in individuals with reading and writing impairments and also in infants at risk for these impairments. The goal of the present study was to analyze the relationship between auditory speech discrimination in infancy and writing abilities at school age within subjects, and to determine when auditory speech discrimination differences, relevant for later writing abilities, start to develop. We analyzed the MMR registered in response to natural syllables in German children with and without writing problems at two points during development, that is, at school age and at infancy, namely at age 1 month and 5 months. We observed MMR related auditory discrimination differences between infants with and without later writing problems, starting to develop at age 5 months-an age when infants begin to establish language-specific phoneme representations. At school age, these children with and without writing problems also showed auditory discrimination differences, reflected in the MMR, confirming a relationship between writing and auditory speech processing skills. Thus, writing problems at school age are, at least, partly grounded in auditory discrimination problems developing already during the first months of life.
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- Gesa Schaadt
- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, 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 Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, Germany; Graduate School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, 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
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Paquette N, Vannasing P, Tremblay J, Lefebvre F, Roy MS, McKerral M, Lepore F, Lassonde M, Gallagher A. Early electrophysiological markers of atypical language processing in prematurely born infants. Neuropsychologia 2015; 79:21-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2015] [Revised: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Is it time to move mismatch negativity into the clinic? Biol Psychol 2015; 116:41-6. [PMID: 26342995 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2015] [Revised: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Since its inception in the 1970s, the mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related potential has improved our understanding of pre-attentive detection of rule violations, which is a fundamental cognitive process considered by some a form of "primitive intelligence". The body of research to date ranges from animal studies (i.e. when investigating the neural mechanisms and pharmacological properties of MMN generation) to researching the psychophysiological nature of human consciousness. MMN therefore offers the possibility to detect abnormal functioning in the neural system involved in MMN generation, such as it occurs in some neurodevelopmental disorders or patients in vegetative state. While the clinical research data holds considerable promise for translation into clinical practice, standardization and normative data of an optimized (i.e. disorder-specific) MMN recording algorithm is needed in order for MMN to become a valuable clinical investigation tool.
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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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Yang MT, Hsu CH, Yeh PW, Lee WT, Liang JS, Fu WM, Lee CY. Attention deficits revealed by passive auditory change detection for pure tones and lexical tones in ADHD children. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:470. [PMID: 26379533 PMCID: PMC4549566 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 08/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Inattention (IA) has been a major problem in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), accounting for their behavioral and cognitive dysfunctions. However, there are at least three processing steps underlying attentional control for auditory change detection, namely pre-attentive change detection, involuntary attention orienting, and attention reorienting for further evaluation. This study aimed to examine whether children with ADHD would show deficits in any of these subcomponents by using mismatch negativity (MMN), P3a, and late discriminative negativity (LDN) as event-related potential (ERP) markers, under the passive auditory oddball paradigm. Two types of stimuli-pure tones and Mandarin lexical tones-were used to examine if the deficits were general across linguistic and non-linguistic domains. Participants included 15 native Mandarin-speaking children with ADHD and 16 age-matched controls (across groups, age ranged between 6 and 15 years). Two passive auditory oddball paradigms (lexical tones and pure tones) were applied. The pure tone oddball paradigm included a standard stimulus (1000 Hz, 80%) and two deviant stimuli (1015 and 1090 Hz, 10% each). The Mandarin lexical tone oddball paradigm's standard stimulus was /yi3/ (80%) and two deviant stimuli were /yi1/ and /yi2/ (10% each). The results showed no MMN difference, but did show attenuated P3a and enhanced LDN to the large deviants for both pure and lexical tone changes in the ADHD group. Correlation analysis showed that children with higher ADHD tendency, as indexed by parents' and teachers' ratings on ADHD symptoms, showed less positive P3a amplitudes when responding to large lexical tone deviants. Thus, children with ADHD showed impaired auditory change detection for both pure tones and lexical tones in both involuntary attention switching, and attention reorienting for further evaluation. These ERP markers may therefore be used for the evaluation of anti-ADHD drugs that aim to alleviate these dysfunctions.
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- Ming-Tao Yang
- Department of Pediatrics, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital New Taipei City, Taiwan ; Institute of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan
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- Brain and Language Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan
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- Brain and Language Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan ; Department of Psychology, Lancaster University UK
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- Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan
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- Brain and Language Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan ; Laboratory for Cognitive Neuropsychology, National Yang-Ming University Taipei, Taiwan ; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University Jhongli, Taiwan
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Hisagi M, Shafer VL, Strange W, Sussman ES. Neural measures of a Japanese consonant length discrimination by Japanese and American English listeners: Effects of attention. Brain Res 2015; 1626:218-31. [PMID: 26119918 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2014] [Revised: 05/29/2015] [Accepted: 06/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This study examined automaticity of discrimination of a Japanese length contrast for consonants (miʃi vs. miʃʃi) in native (Japanese) and non-native (American-English) listeners using behavioral measures and the event-related potential (ERP) mismatch negativity (MMN). Attention to the auditory input was manipulated either away from the auditory input via a visual oddball task (Visual Attend), or to the input by asking the listeners to count auditory deviants (Auditory Attend). Results showed a larger MMN when attention was focused on the consonant contrast than away from it for both groups. The MMN was larger for consonant duration increments than decrements. No difference in MMN between the language groups was observed, but the Japanese listeners did show better behavioral discrimination than the American English listeners. In addition, behavioral responses showed a weak, but significant correlation with MMN amplitude. These findings suggest that both acoustic-phonetic properties and phonological experience affects automaticity of speech processing. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled SI: Prediction and Attention.
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- Miwako Hisagi
- The City University of New York - Graduate School and University Center, PhD. Program in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309, USA.
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- The City University of New York - Graduate School and University Center, PhD. Program in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309, USA
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- The City University of New York - Graduate School and University Center, PhD. Program in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309, USA
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- The City University of New York - Graduate School and University Center, PhD. Program in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309, USA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, 1410 Pelham Parkway S, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Putkinen V, Tervaniemi M, Saarikivi K, Huotilainen M. Promises of formal and informal musical activities in advancing neurocognitive development throughout childhood. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2015; 1337:153-62. [PMID: 25773630 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Adult musicians show superior neural sound discrimination when compared to nonmusicians. However, it is unclear whether these group differences reflect the effects of experience or preexisting neural enhancement in individuals who seek out musical training. Tracking how brain function matures over time in musically trained and nontrained children can shed light on this issue. Here, we review our recent longitudinal event-related potential (ERP) studies that examine how formal musical training and less formal musical activities influence the maturation of brain responses related to sound discrimination and auditory attention. These studies found that musically trained school-aged children and preschool-aged children attending a musical playschool show more rapid maturation of neural sound discrimination than their control peers. Importantly, we found no evidence for pretraining group differences. In a related cross-sectional study, we found ERP and behavioral evidence for improved executive functions and control over auditory novelty processing in musically trained school-aged children and adolescents. Taken together, these studies provide evidence for the causal role of formal musical training and less formal musical activities in shaping the development of important neural auditory skills and suggest transfer effects with domain-general implications.
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- Vesa Putkinen
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Cognitive Science, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Finnish Centre of Interdisciplinary Music Research, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Tong X, McBride C, Zhang J, Chung KKH, Lee CY, Shuai L, Tong X. Neural correlates of acoustic cues of English lexical stress in Cantonese-speaking children. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2014; 138:61-70. [PMID: 25310025 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Revised: 08/04/2014] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The present study investigated the temporal course of neural discriminations of acoustic cues of English lexical stress (i.e., pitch, intensity and duration) in Cantonese-speaking children. We used an event-related potential (ERP) measure with a multiple-deviant oddball paradigm to record auditory mismatch responses to four deviants, namely, a change in pitch, intensity, or duration, or a change in all three acoustic dimensions, of English lexical stress in familiar words. In the time window of 170-270 ms, we found that the pitch deviant elicited significant positive mismatch responses (p-MMRs) and that the duration deviant elicited a mismatch negativity (MMN) response as compared with the standard. In the time window of 270-400 ms, the intensity deviant elicited a significant p-MMR, whereas both the duration and the three-dimension changed deviants elicited significant MMNs. These results suggest that Cantonese-speaking children are sensitive to either single or convergent acoustic cues of English words, and that the relative weighting of pitch, intensity and duration in stress processing may correlate with different ERP components at different time windows in Cantonese second graders.
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- Xiuhong Tong
- Psychology Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- Psychology Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
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- Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macao
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- Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
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- The Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, United States
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- Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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Shafer VL, Yu YH, Wagner M. Maturation of cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) to speech recorded from frontocentral and temporal sites: three months to eight years of age. Int J Psychophysiol 2014; 95:77-93. [PMID: 25219893 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.08.1390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2014] [Revised: 08/08/2014] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The goal of the current analysis was to examine the maturation of cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) from three months of age to eight years of age. The superior frontal positive-negative-positive sequence (P1, N2, P2) and the temporal site, negative-positive-negative sequence (possibly, Na, Ta, Tb of the T-complex) were examined. Event-related potentials were recorded from 63 scalp sites to a 250-ms vowel. Amplitude and latency of peaks were measured at left and right frontal sites (near Fz) and at left and right temporal sites (T7 and T8). In addition, the largest peak (typically corresponding to P1) was selected from global field power (GFP). The results revealed a large positive peak (P1) easily identified at frontal sites across all ages. The N2 emerged after 6 months of age and the following P2 between 8 and 30 months of age. The latencies of these peaks decreased exponentially with the most rapid decrease observed for P1. For amplitude, only P1 showed a clear relationship with age, becoming more positive in a somewhat linear fashion. At the temporal sites only a negative peak, which might be Na, was clearly observed at both left and right sites in children older than 14 months and peaking between 100 and 200 ms. P1 measures at frontal sites and Na peak latencies were moderately correlated. The temporal negative peak latency showed a different maturational timecourse (linear in nature) than the P1 peak, suggesting at least partial independence. Distinct Ta (positive) and Tb (negative) peaks, following Na and peaking between 120 and 220 ms were not consistently found in most age groups of children, except Ta which was present in 7 year olds. Future research, which includes manipulation of stimulus factors, and use of modeling techniques will be needed to explain the apparent, protracted maturation of the temporal site measures in the current study.
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- Valerie L Shafer
- Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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- William Paterson University of New Jersey, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, NJ 07470, USA
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- St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439, USA
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Nie Y, Zhang Y, Nelson PB. Auditory stream segregation using bandpass noises: evidence from event-related potentials. Front Neurosci 2014; 8:277. [PMID: 25309306 PMCID: PMC4162371 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The current study measured neural responses to investigate auditory stream segregation of noise stimuli with or without clear spectral contrast. Sequences of alternating A and B noise bursts were presented to elicit stream segregation in normal-hearing listeners. The successive B bursts in each sequence maintained an equal amount of temporal separation with manipulations introduced on the last stimulus. The last B burst was either delayed for 50% of the sequences or not delayed for the other 50%. The A bursts were jittered in between every two adjacent B bursts. To study the effects of spectral separation on streaming, the A and B bursts were further manipulated by using either bandpass-filtered noises widely spaced in center frequency or broadband noises. Event-related potentials (ERPs) to the last B bursts were analyzed to compare the neural responses to the delay vs. no-delay trials in both passive and attentive listening conditions. In the passive listening condition, a trend for a possible late mismatch negativity (MMN) or late discriminative negativity (LDN) response was observed only when the A and B bursts were spectrally separate, suggesting that spectral separation in the A and B burst sequences could be conducive to stream segregation at the pre-attentive level. In the attentive condition, a P300 response was consistently elicited regardless of whether there was spectral separation between the A and B bursts, indicating the facilitative role of voluntary attention in stream segregation. The results suggest that reliable ERP measures can be used as indirect indicators for auditory stream segregation in conditions of weak spectral contrast. These findings have important implications for cochlear implant (CI) studies-as spectral information available through a CI device or simulation is substantially degraded, it may require more attention to achieve stream segregation.
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- Yingjiu Nie
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of MinnesotaTwin-Cities, MN, USA
- Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of MinnesotaTwin-Cities, MN, USA
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- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of MinnesotaTwin-Cities, MN, USA
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Tong X, McBride C, Lee CY, Zhang J, Shuai L, Maurer U, Chung KKH. Segmental and suprasegmental features in speech perception in Cantonese-speaking second graders: An ERP study. Psychophysiology 2014; 51:1158-68. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2013] [Accepted: 05/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Xiuhong Tong
- Psychology Department; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong China
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- Psychology Department; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong China
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- The Institute of Linguistics; Academia Sinica; Taipei Taiwan
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- Faculty of Education; University of Macau; Macau China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore Maryland USA
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- Department of Psychology; University of Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
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- Department of Special Education and Counselling; Hong Kong Institute of Education; Hong Kong China
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Näätänen R, Sussman ES, Salisbury D, Shafer VL. Mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index of cognitive dysfunction. Brain Topogr 2014; 27:451-66. [PMID: 24838819 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-014-0374-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Accepted: 04/29/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Cognition is often affected in a variety of neuropsychiatric, neurological, and neurodevelopmental disorders. The neural discriminative response, reflected in mismatch negativity (MMN) and its magnetoencephalographic equivalent (MMNm), has been used as a tool to study a variety of disorders involving auditory cognition. MMN/MMNm is an involuntary brain response to auditory change or, more generally, to pattern regularity violation. For a number of disorders, MMN/MMNm amplitude to sound deviance has been shown to be attenuated or the peak-latency of the component prolonged compared to controls. This general finding suggests that while not serving as a specific marker to any particular disorder, MMN may be useful for understanding factors of cognition in various disorders, and has potential to serve as an indicator of risk. This review presents a brief history of the MMN, followed by a description of how MMN has been used to index auditory processing capability in a range of neuropsychiatric, neurological, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Finally, we suggest future directions for research to further enhance our understanding of the neural substrate of deviance detection that could lead to improvements in the use of MMN as a clinical tool.
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- Risto Näätänen
- Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Liu HM, Chen Y, Tsao FM. Developmental changes in mismatch responses to mandarin consonants and lexical tones from early to middle childhood. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95587. [PMID: 24755999 PMCID: PMC3995781 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2013] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study was to use mismatch responses (MMRs) to explore the dynamic changes of Mandarin speech perception abilities from early to middle childhood. Twenty preschoolers, 18 school-aged children, and 26 adults participated in this study. Two sets of synthesized speech stimuli varying in Mandarin consonant (alveolo-palatal affricate vs. fricative) and lexical tone features (rising vs. contour tone) were used to examine the developmental course of speech perception abilities. The results indicated that only the adult group demonstrated typical early mismatch negativity (MMN) responses, suggesting that the ability to discriminate specific speech cues in Mandarin consonant and lexical tone is a continuing process in preschool- and school-aged children. Additionally, distinct MMR patterns provided evidence indicating diverse developmental courses to different speech characteristics. By incorporating data from the two speech conditions, we propose using MMR profiles consisting of mismatch negativity (MMN), positive mismatch response (p-MMR), and late discriminative negativity (LDN) as possible brain indices to investigate speech perception development.
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- Huei-Mei Liu
- Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Hövel H, Partanen E, Huotilainen M, Lindgren M, Rosén I, Fellman V. Auditory event-related potentials at preschool age in children born very preterm. Clin Neurophysiol 2014; 125:449-56. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2012] [Revised: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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