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Klimovich-Gray A, Di Liberto G, Amoruso L, Barrena A, Agirre E, Molinaro N. Increased top-down semantic processing in natural speech linked to better reading in dyslexia. Neuroimage 2023; 273:120072. [PMID: 37004829 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Revised: 03/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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Early research proposed that individuals with developmental dyslexia use contextual information to facilitate lexical access and compensate for phonological deficits. Yet at present there is no corroborating neuro-cognitive evidence. We explored this with a novel combination of magnetoencephalography (MEG), neural encoding and grey matter volume analyses. We analysed MEG data from 41 adult native Spanish speakers (14 with dyslexic symptoms) who passively listened to naturalistic sentences. We used multivariate Temporal Response Function analysis to capture online cortical tracking of both auditory (speech envelope) and contextual information. To compute contextual information tracking we used word-level Semantic Surprisal derived using a Transformer Neural Network language model. We related online information tracking to participants' reading scores and grey matter volumes within the reading-linked cortical network. We found that right hemisphere envelope tracking was related to better phonological decoding (pseudoword reading) for both groups, with dyslexic readers performing worse overall at this task. Consistently, grey matter volume in the superior temporal and bilateral inferior frontal areas increased with better envelope tracking abilities. Critically, for dyslexic readers only, stronger Semantic Surprisal tracking in the right hemisphere was related to better word reading. These findings further support the notion of a speech envelope tracking deficit in dyslexia and provide novel evidence for top-down semantic compensatory mechanisms.
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Azaiez N, Loberg O, Hämäläinen JA, Leppänen PHT. Brain Source Correlates of Speech Perception and Reading Processes in Children With and Without Reading Difficulties. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:921977. [PMID: 35928008 PMCID: PMC9344064 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.921977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Neural correlates in reading and speech processing have been addressed extensively in the literature. While reading skills and speech perception have been shown to be associated with each other, their relationship remains debatable. In this study, we investigated reading skills, speech perception, reading, and their correlates with brain source activity in auditory and visual modalities. We used high-density event-related potentials (ERPs), fixation-related potentials (FRPs), and the source reconstruction method. The analysis was conducted on 12–13-year-old schoolchildren who had different reading levels. Brain ERP source indices were computed from frequently repeated Finnish speech stimuli presented in an auditory oddball paradigm. Brain FRP source indices were also computed for words within sentences presented in a reading task. The results showed significant correlations between speech ERP sources and reading scores at the P100 (P1) time range in the left hemisphere and the N250 time range in both hemispheres, and a weaker correlation for visual word processing N170 FRP source(s) in the posterior occipital areas, in the vicinity of the visual word form areas (VWFA). Furthermore, significant brain-to-brain correlations were found between the two modalities, where the speech brain sources of the P1 and N250 responses correlated with the reading N170 response. The results suggest that speech processes are linked to reading fluency and that brain activations to speech are linked to visual brain processes of reading. These results indicate that a relationship between language and reading systems is present even after several years of exposure to print.
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- Najla Azaiez
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
- *Correspondence: Najla Azaiez ; orcid.org/0000-0002-7525-3745
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Psychology, Jyväskylä Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Psychology, Jyväskylä Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Gerwin KL, Brosseau-Lapré F, Weber C. Event-Related Potentials Elicited by Phonetic Errors Differentiate Children With Speech Sound Disorder and Typically Developing Peers. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2021; 64:4614-4630. [PMID: 34735291 PMCID: PMC9150672 DOI: 10.1044/2021_jslhr-21-00203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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PURPOSE A growing body of research suggests that a deficit in speech perception abilities contributes to the development of speech sound disorder (SSD). However, little work has been done to characterize the neurophysiological processes indexing speech perception deficits in this population. The primary aim of this study was to compare the neural activity underlying speech perception in young children with SSD and with typical development (TD). METHOD Twenty-eight children ages 4;1-6;0 (years;months) participated in this study. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while children completed a speech perception task that included phonetic (speech sound) and lexical (meaning) matches and mismatches. Groups were compared on their judgment accuracy for matches and mismatches as well as the mean amplitude of the phonological mapping negativity (PMN) and N400 ERP components. RESULTS Children with SSD demonstrated lower judgment accuracy across the phonetic and lexical conditions compared to peers with TD. The ERPs elicited by lexical matches and mismatches did not distinguish the groups. However, in the phonetic condition, the SSD group exhibited a more consistent left-lateralized PMN effect and a delayed N400 effect over frontal sites compared to the TD group. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide some of the first evidence of a delay in the neurophysiological processing of phonological information for young children with SSD compared to their peers with TD. This delay was not present for the processing of lexical information, indicating a unique difference between children with SSD and with TD related to speech perception of phonetic errors. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.16915579.
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- Katelyn L. Gerwin
- Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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Yoshimura Y, Hasegawa C, Ikeda T, Saito DN, Hiraishi H, Takahashi T, Kumazaki H, Kikuchi M. The maturation of the P1m component in response to voice from infancy to 3 years of age: A longitudinal study in young children. Brain Behav 2020; 10:e01706. [PMID: 32573987 PMCID: PMC7428512 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.1706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION In the early development of human infants and toddlers, remarkable changes in brain cortical function for auditory processing have been reported. Knowing the maturational trajectory of auditory cortex responses to human voice in typically developing young children is crucial for identifying voice processing abnormalities in children at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders and language impairment. An early prominent positive component in the cerebral auditory response in newborns has been reported in previous electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies. However, it is not clear whether this prominent component in infants less than 1 year of age corresponds to the auditory P1m component that has been reported in young children over 2 years of age. METHODS To test the hypothesis that the early prominent positive component in infants aged 0 years is an immature manifestation of P1m that we previously reported in children over 2 years of age, we performed a longitudinal MEG study that focused on this early component and examined the maturational changes over three years starting from age 0. Five infants participated in this 3-year longitudinal study. RESULTS This research revealed that the early prominent component in infants aged 3 month corresponded to the auditory P1m component in young children over 2 years old, which we had previously reported to be related to language development and/or autism spectrum disorders. CONCLUSION Our data revealed the development of the auditory-evoked field in the left and right hemispheres from 0- to 3-year-old children. These results contribute to the elucidation of the development of brain functions in infants.
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- Yuko Yoshimura
- Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.,Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Institute for Medical Photonics research, Hamamatsu University school of medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.,Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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Castro-Camacho W, Peñaloza-López Y, Pérez-Ruiz SJ, García-Pedroza F, Padilla-Ortiz AL, Poblano A, Villarruel-Rivas C, Romero-Díaz A, Careaga-Olvera A. Sound localization and word discrimination in reverberant environment in children with developmental dyslexia. ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA 2015; 73:314-20. [PMID: 25992522 DOI: 10.1590/0004-282x20150005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2014] [Accepted: 12/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Compare if localization of sounds and words discrimination in reverberant environment is different between children with dyslexia and controls. METHOD We studied 30 children with dyslexia and 30 controls. Sound and word localization and discrimination was studied in five angles from left to right auditory fields (-90o, -45o, 0o, +45o, +90o), under reverberant and no-reverberant conditions; correct answers were compared. RESULTS Spatial location of words in no-reverberant test was deficient in children with dyslexia at 0º and +90o. Spatial location for reverberant test was altered in children with dyslexia at all angles, except -90o. Word discrimination in no-reverberant test in children with dyslexia had a poor performance at left angles. In reverberant test, children with dyslexia exhibited deficiencies at -45o, -90o, and +45o angles. CONCLUSION Children with dyslexia could had problems when have to locate sound, and discriminate words in extreme locations of the horizontal plane in classrooms with reverberation.
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- Wendy Castro-Camacho
- Laboratory of Central Auditory Alterations Research, National Institute of Rehabilitation, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Central Auditory Alterations Research, National Institute of Rehabilitation, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Center of Applied Sciences and Technological Development, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Familial Medicine, School of Medicine, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Center of Applied Sciences and Technological Development, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Central Auditory Alterations Research, National Institute of Rehabilitation, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Central Auditory Alterations Research, National Institute of Rehabilitation, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Psychology, National Institute of Rehabilitation, Mexico City, Mexico
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Characterizing the morphosyntactic processing deficit and its relationship to phonology in developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia 2013; 51:1595-607. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2012] [Revised: 03/28/2013] [Accepted: 04/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Gamma phase locking modulated by phonological contrast during auditory comprehension in reading disability. Neuroreport 2013; 23:851-6. [PMID: 22889887 DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0b013e32835818e1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Children with specific reading impairment may have subtle deficits in speech perception related to difficulties in phonological processing. The aim of this study was to examine brain oscillatory activity related to phonological processing in the context of auditory sentence comprehension using magnetoencephalography to better understand these deficits. Good and poor readers, 16-18 years of age, were tested on speech perception of sentence-terminal incongruent words that were phonologically manipulated to be similar or dissimilar to corresponding congruent target words. Functional coupling between regions was measured using phase-locking values (PLVs). Gamma-band (30-45 Hz) PLV between auditory cortex and superior temporal sulcus in the right hemisphere was differentially modulated in the two groups by the degree of phonological contrast between the congruent and the incongruent target words in the latency range associated with semantic processing. Specifically, the PLV was larger in the phonologically similar than in the phonologically dissimilar condition in the good readers. This pattern was reversed in the poor readers, whose lower PLV in the phonologically similar condition may be indicative of the impaired phonological coding abilities of the group, and consequent vulnerability under perceptually demanding conditions. Overall, the results support the role of gamma oscillations in spoken language processing.
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The nicotinic receptor of cochlear hair cells: a possible pharmacotherapeutic target? Biochem Pharmacol 2009; 78:712-9. [PMID: 19481062 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2009.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2009] [Revised: 05/18/2009] [Accepted: 05/19/2009] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Mechanosensory hair cells of the organ of Corti transmit information regarding sound to the central nervous system by way of peripheral afferent neurons. In return, the central nervous system provides feedback and modulates the afferent stream of information through efferent neurons. The medial olivocochlear efferent system makes direct synaptic contacts with outer hair cells and inhibits amplification brought about by the active mechanical process inherent to these cells. This feedback system offers the potential to improve the detection of signals in background noise, to selectively attend to particular signals, and to protect the periphery from damage caused by overly loud sounds. Acetylcholine released at the synapse between efferent terminals and outer hair cells activates a peculiar nicotinic cholinergic receptor subtype, the alpha9alpha10 receptor. At present no pharmacotherapeutic approaches have been designed that target this cholinergic receptor to treat pathologies of the auditory system. The potential use of alpha9alpha10 selective drugs in conditions such as noise-induced hearing loss, tinnitus and auditory processing disorders is discussed.
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