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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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Virtala P, Kujala T, Partanen E, Hämäläinen JA, Winkler I. Neural phoneme discrimination in variable speech in newborns - Associations with dyslexia risk and later language skills. Brain Cogn 2023; 168:105974. [PMID: 37037170 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2023.105974] [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: 03/17/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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A crucial skill in infant language acquisition is learning of the native language phonemes. This requires the ability to group complex sounds into distinct auditory categories based on their shared features. Problems in phonetic learning have been suggested to underlie language learning difficulties in dyslexia, a developmental reading-skill deficit. We investigated auditory abilities important for language acquisition in newborns with or without a familial risk for dyslexia with electrophysiological mismatch responses (MMRs). We presented vowel changes in a sequence of acoustically varying vowels, requiring grouping of the stimuli to two phoneme categories. The vowel changes elicited an MMR which was significantly diminished in infants whose parents had the most severe dyslexia in our sample. Phoneme-MMR amplitude and its hemispheric lateralization were associated with language test outcomes assessed at 28 months, an age at which it becomes possible to behaviourally test children and several standardized tests are available. In addition, statistically significant MMRs to violations of a complex sound-order rule were only found in infants without dyslexia risk, but these results are very preliminary due to small sample size. The results demonstrate the relevance of the newborn infants' readiness for phonetic learning for their emerging language skills. Phoneme extraction difficulties in infants at familial risk may contribute to the phonological deficits observed in dyslexia.
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- P Virtala
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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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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Yang Y, Li Q, Xiao Y, Liu Y, Sun K, Li B, Zheng Q. Auditory Discrimination Elicited by Nonspeech and Speech Stimuli in Children With Congenital Hearing Loss. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2022; 65:3981-3995. [PMID: 36095326 PMCID: PMC9927627 DOI: 10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Revised: 04/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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PURPOSE Congenital deafness not only delays auditory development but also hampers the ability to perceive nonspeech and speech signals. This study aimed to use auditory event-related potentials to explore the mismatch negativity (MMN), P3a, negative wave (Nc), and late discriminative negativity (LDN) components in children with and without hearing loss. METHOD Nineteen children with normal hearing (CNH) and 17 children with hearing loss (CHL) participated in this study. Two sets of pure tones (1 kHz vs. 1.1 kHz) and lexical tones (/ba2/ vs. /ba4/) were used to examine the auditory discrimination process. RESULTS MMN could be elicited by the pure tone and the lexical tone in both groups. The MMN latency elicited by nonspeech and speech was later in CHL than in CNH. Additionally, the MMN latency induced by speech occurred later in the left than in the right hemisphere in CNH, and the MMN amplitude elicited by speech in CHL produced a discriminative deficiency compared with that in CNH. Although the P3a latency and amplitude elicited by nonspeech in CHL and CNH were not significantly different, the Nc amplitude elicited by speech performed much lower in CHL than in CNH. Furthermore, the LDN latency elicited by nonspeech was later in CHL than in CNH, and the LDN amplitude induced by speech showed higher dominance in the right hemisphere in both CNH and CHL. CONCLUSION By incorporating nonspeech and speech auditory conditions, we propose using MMN, Nc, and LDN as potential indices to investigate auditory perception, memory, and discrimination.
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- Ying Yang
- Department of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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- Department of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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- Department of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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- Department of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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- Department of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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- Department of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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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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Tervaniemi M, Putkinen V, Nie P, Wang C, Du B, Lu J, Li S, Cowley BU, Tammi T, Tao S. Improved Auditory Function Caused by Music Versus Foreign Language Training at School Age: Is There a Difference? Cereb Cortex 2021; 32:63-75. [PMID: 34265850 PMCID: PMC8634570 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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In adults, music and speech share many neurocognitive functions, but how do they interact in a developing brain? We compared the effects of music and foreign language training on auditory neurocognition in Chinese children aged 8–11 years. We delivered group-based training programs in music and foreign language using a randomized controlled trial. A passive control group was also included. Before and after these year-long extracurricular programs, auditory event-related potentials were recorded (n = 123 and 85 before and after the program, respectively). Through these recordings, we probed early auditory predictive brain processes. To our surprise, the language program facilitated the children’s early auditory predictive brain processes significantly more than did the music program. This facilitation was most evident in pitch encoding when the experimental paradigm was musically relevant. When these processes were probed by a paradigm more focused on basic sound features, we found early predictive pitch encoding to be facilitated by music training. Thus, a foreign language program is able to foster auditory and music neurocognition, at least in tonal language speakers, in a manner comparable to that by a music program. Our results support the tight coupling of musical and linguistic brain functions also in the developing brain.
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- Mari Tervaniemi
- Cicero Learning, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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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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- Cicero Learning, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.,Cognitive Science, Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Science, Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Deficient sensory and cognitive processing in children with cochlear implants: An event-related potential study. Hear Res 2021; 408:108295. [PMID: 34175588 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2021.108295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Compared with children having normal hearing (NH), those with cochlear implants (CIs) perform poorly in spoken language comprehension which involves both low-level acoustic encoding and higher-level cognitive processing. Here, we performed an electroencephalography study to portray this brain dynamics of speech perception in CI children. We presented a Mandarin Chinese monosyllable or four-syllable idiom to CI and NH children, and infrequently varied its lexical tone to form a novel monosyllable or pseudo-idiom in an oddball paradigm. The tone contrast embedded in the monosyllables evoked similar mismatch negativities (MMNs) in CI and NH children at an early stage (~200 ms). However, the amplitude of the MMN evoked by the tone contrast in the idiom context was significantly lower in CI children than in NH children. Furthermore, robust late discriminative negativity (LDN) at a late stage (~500 ms) was found only in NH children, but not in CI children. The MMN and LDN findings indicate deficits of low-level acoustic encoding in a complex context (such as an idiom) and higher-level cognitive processing in CI children, respectively. Both deficient sensory and cognitive processing may contribute to the speech perception difficulties in CI children.
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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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Sysoeva OV, Molholm S, Djukic A, Frey HP, Foxe JJ. Atypical processing of tones and phonemes in Rett Syndrome as biomarkers of disease progression. Transl Psychiatry 2020; 10:188. [PMID: 32522978 PMCID: PMC7287060 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-00877-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Revised: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Due to severe motor impairments and the lack of expressive language abilities seen in most patients with Rett Syndrome (RTT), it has proven extremely difficult to obtain accurate measures of auditory processing capabilities in this population. Here, we examined early auditory cortical processing of pure tones and more complex phonemes in females with Rett Syndrome (RTT), by recording high-density auditory evoked potentials (AEP), which allow for objective evaluation of the timing and severity of processing deficits along the auditory processing hierarchy. We compared AEPs of 12 females with RTT to those of 21 typically developing (TD) peers aged 4-21 years, interrogating the first four major components of the AEP (P1: 60-90 ms; N1: 100-130 ms; P2: 135-165 ms; and N2: 245-275 ms). Atypicalities were evident in RTT at the initial stage of processing. Whereas the P1 showed increased amplitude to phonemic inputs relative to tones in TD participants, this modulation by stimulus complexity was absent in RTT. Interestingly, the subsequent N1 did not differ between groups, whereas the following P2 was hugely diminished in RTT, regardless of stimulus complexity. The N2 was similarly smaller in RTT and did not differ as a function of stimulus type. The P2 effect was remarkably robust in differentiating between groups with near perfect separation between the two groups despite the wide age range of our samples. Given this robustness, along with the observation that P2 amplitude was significantly associated with RTT symptom severity, the P2 has the potential to serve as a monitoring, treatment response, or even surrogate endpoint biomarker. Compellingly, the reduction of P2 in patients with RTT mimics findings in animal models of RTT, providing a translational bridge between pre-clinical and human research.
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- Olga V. Sysoeva
- grid.412750.50000 0004 1936 9166The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY USA ,grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY USA ,grid.4886.20000 0001 2192 9124The Laboratory of Human Higher Nervous Activity, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- grid.412750.50000 0004 1936 9166The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY USA ,grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY USA
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- grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Rett Syndrome Center, Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center & Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY USA
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- grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY USA
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- grid.412750.50000 0004 1936 9166The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY USA ,grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY USA
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Honbolygó F, Kóbor A, German B, Csépe V. Word stress representations are language‐specific: Evidence from event‐related brain potentials. Psychophysiology 2020; 57:e13541. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Revised: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Ferenc Honbolygó
- Brain Imaging Centre Research Centre for Natural Sciences Budapest Hungary
- Institute of Psychology ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Hungary
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- Brain Imaging Centre Research Centre for Natural Sciences Budapest Hungary
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- Brain Imaging Centre Research Centre for Natural Sciences Budapest Hungary
- Department of Cognitive Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Budapest Hungary
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- Brain Imaging Centre Research Centre for Natural Sciences Budapest Hungary
- Faculty of Modern Philology and Social Sciences University of Pannonia Budapest Hungary
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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
Abstract
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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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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Kujala T, Leminen M. Low-level neural auditory discrimination dysfunctions in specific language impairment-A review on mismatch negativity findings. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2017; 28:65-75. [PMID: 29182947 PMCID: PMC6987907 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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In specific language impairment (SLI), there is a delay in the child’s oral language skills when compared with nonverbal cognitive abilities. The problems typically relate to phonological and morphological processing and word learning. This article reviews studies which have used mismatch negativity (MMN) in investigating low-level neural auditory dysfunctions in this disorder. With MMN, it is possible to tap the accuracy of neural sound discrimination and sensory memory functions. These studies have found smaller response amplitudes and longer latencies for speech and non-speech sound changes in children with SLI than in typically developing children, suggesting impaired and slow auditory discrimination in SLI. Furthermore, they suggest shortened sensory memory duration and vulnerability of the sensory memory to masking effects. Importantly, some studies reported associations between MMN parameters and language test measures. In addition, it was found that language intervention can influence the abnormal MMN in children with SLI, enhancing its amplitude. These results suggest that the MMN can shed light on the neural basis of various auditory and memory impairments in SLI, which are likely to influence speech perception.
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- Teija Kujala
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, P.O. Box 21, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, P.O. Box 21, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Phoniatrics, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Hämäläinen JA, Landi N, Loberg O, Lohvansuu K, Pugh K, Leppänen PHT. Brain event-related potentials to phoneme contrasts and their correlation to reading skills in school-age children. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT 2017; 42:357-372. [PMID: 29892138 DOI: 10.1177/0165025417728582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Development of reading skills has been shown to be tightly linked to phonological processing skills and to some extent to speech perception abilities. Although speech perception is also known to play a role in reading development, it is not clear which processes underlie this connection. Using event-related potentials (ERPs) we investigated the speech processing mechanisms for common and uncommon sound contrasts (/ba/-/da/-/ga/ and /ata/-/at:a/) with respect to the native language of school-age children in Finland and the United States. In addition, a comprehensive behavioral test battery of reading and phonological processing was administered. ERPs revealed that the children could discriminate between the speech sound contrasts (place of articulation and phoneme length) regardless of their native language. No differences emerged between the Finnish and US children in their change detection responses. However, the brain responses to the phoneme length contrast correlated robustly with reading scores in the US children with larger responses being linked to poorer reading skills. Finnish children also showed correlations between the reading and phonological measures and ERP responses, but the pattern of results was not as clear as for the US children. The results indicate that speech perception is linked to reading skills and this link is more robust for uncommon speech sound contrasts.
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- Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut 06511.,Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1020.,Yale University Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Department of Psychology, 40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, 40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut 06511.,Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1020.,Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8042
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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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Honbolygó F, Kolozsvári O, Csépe V. Processing of word stress related acoustic information: A multi-feature MMN study. Int J Psychophysiol 2017; 118:9-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2016] [Revised: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Changes in room acoustics elicit a Mismatch Negativity in the absence of overall interaural intensity differences. Neurosci Lett 2016; 640:13-20. [PMID: 28043833 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.11.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2016] [Revised: 11/24/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Changes in room acoustics provide important clues about the environment of sound source-perceiver systems, for example, by indicating changes in the reflecting characteristics of surrounding objects. To study the detection of auditory irregularities brought about by a change in room acoustics, a passive oddball protocol with participants watching a movie was applied in this study. Acoustic stimuli were presented via headphones. Standards and deviants were created by modelling rooms of different sizes, keeping the values of the basic acoustic dimensions (e.g., frequency, duration, sound pressure, and sound source location) as constant as possible. In the first experiment, each standard and deviant stimulus consisted of sequences of three short sounds derived from sinusoidal tones, resulting in three onsets during each stimulus. Deviant stimuli elicited a Mismatch Negativity (MMN) as well as two additional negative deflections corresponding to the three onset peaks. In the second experiment, only one sound was used; the stimuli were otherwise identical to the ones used in the first experiment. Again, an MMN was observed, followed by an additional negative deflection. These results provide further support for the hypothesis of automatic detection of unattended changes in room acoustics, extending previous work by demonstrating the elicitation of an MMN by changes in room acoustics.
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Kuuluvainen S, Leminen A, Kujala T. Auditory evoked potentials to speech and nonspeech stimuli are associated with verbal skills in preschoolers. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2016; 19:223-32. [PMID: 27131343 PMCID: PMC6988591 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2016.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Revised: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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ERPs to speech and matched nonspeech sounds were recorded in 63 preschoolers. P1 and N2 were larger for nonspeech than speech sounds, the opposite being true for N4. Differences between speech and nonspeech ERPs were associated with verbal skills. ERP lateralization was associated with phonological and naming abilities. The results suggest that ERPs are useful measures of children’s cortical functioning.
Children’s obligatory auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) to speech and nonspeech sounds have been shown to associate with reading performance in children at risk or with dyslexia and their controls. However, very little is known of the cognitive processes these responses reflect. To investigate this question, we recorded ERPs to semisynthetic syllables and their acoustically matched nonspeech counterparts in 63 typically developed preschoolers, and assessed their verbal skills with an extensive set of neurocognitive tests. P1 and N2 amplitudes were larger for nonspeech than speech stimuli, whereas the opposite was true for N4. Furthermore, left-lateralized P1s were associated with better phonological and prereading skills, and larger P1s to nonspeech than speech stimuli with poorer verbal reasoning performance. Moreover, left-lateralized N2s, and equal-sized N4s to both speech and nonspeech stimuli were associated with slower naming. In contrast, children with equal-sized N2 amplitudes at left and right scalp locations, and larger N4s for speech than nonspeech stimuli, performed fastest. We discuss the possibility that children’s ERPs reflect not only neural encoding of sounds, but also sound quality processing, memory-trace construction, and lexical access. The results also corroborate previous findings that speech and nonspeech sounds are processed by at least partially distinct neural substrates.
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- Soila Kuuluvainen
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
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