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Atanasova T, Fargier R, Zesiger P, Laganaro M. Dynamics of Word Production in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood. NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE (CAMBRIDGE, MASS.) 2021; 2:1-21. [PMID: 37213419 PMCID: PMC10158562 DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Accepted: 09/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
Abstract
Changes in word production occur across the lifespan. Previous studies have shown electrophysiological, temporal, and functional differences between children and adults accompanying behavioral changes in picture-naming tasks (Laganaro, Tzieropoulos, Fraunfelder, & Zesiger, 2015). Thus, a shift toward adult-like processes in referential word production occurs somewhere between the ages of 13 and 20. Our aim was to investigate when and how children develop adult-like behavior and brain activation in word production. Toward this aim, performance and event-related potentials (ERP) in a referential word production task were recorded and compared for two groups of adolescents (aged 14 to 16 and 17 to 18), children (aged 10 to 13), and young adults (aged 20 to 30). Both groups of adolescents displayed adult-like production latencies, which were longer only for children, while accuracy was lower in the younger adolescents and in children, compared to adults. ERP waveform analysis and topographic pattern analysis revealed significant intergroup differences in key time-windows on stimulus-locked ERPs, both early (150-220 ms)-associated with pre-linguistic processes-and late (280-330 ms)-associated with lexical processes. The results indicate that brain activation underlying referential word production is completely adult-like in 17-year-old adolescents, whereas an intermediate pattern is still observed in adolescents aged 14 to 16 years old, although their production speed, but not their accuracy, is already adult-like.
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- Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Campbell J, Sharma A. Frontal Cortical Modulation of Temporal Visual Cross-Modal Re-organization in Adults with Hearing Loss. Brain Sci 2020; 10:brainsci10080498. [PMID: 32751543 PMCID: PMC7465622 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10080498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Recent research has demonstrated frontal cortical involvement to co-occur with visual re-organization, suggestive of top-down modulation of cross-modal mechanisms. However, it is unclear whether top-down modulation of visual re-organization takes place in mild hearing loss, or is dependent upon greater degrees of hearing loss severity. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine if frontal top-down modulation of visual cross-modal re-organization increased across hearing loss severity. We recorded visual evoked potentials (VEPs) in response to apparent motion stimuli in 17 adults with mild-moderate hearing loss using 128-channel high-density electroencephalography (EEG). Current density reconstructions (CDRs) were generated using sLORETA to visualize VEP generators in both groups. VEP latency and amplitude in frontal regions of interest (ROIs) were compared between groups and correlated with auditory behavioral measures. Activation of frontal networks in response to visual stimulation increased across mild to moderate hearing loss, with simultaneous activation of the temporal cortex. In addition, group differences in VEP latency and amplitude correlated with auditory behavioral measures. Overall, these findings support the hypothesis that frontal top-down modulation of visual cross-modal re-organization is dependent upon hearing loss severity.
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- Julia Campbell
- Central Sensory Processes Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Austin, 2504 Whitis Ave a1100, Austin, TX 78712, USA;
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- Anu Sharma, Brain and Behavior Laboratory, Institute of Cognitive Science, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 409 UCB, 2501 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- Correspondence:
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Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented level of interest and progress into understanding visual processing in the brain of the deaf. Specifically, when the brain is deprived of input from one sensory modality (such as hearing), it often compensates with supranormal performance in one or more of the intact sensory systems (such as vision). Recent psychophysical, functional imaging, and reversible deactivation studies have converged to define the specific visual abilities that are enhanced in the deaf, as well as the cortical loci that undergo crossmodal plasticity in the deaf and are responsible for mediating these superior visual functions. Examination of these investigations reveals that central visual functions, such as object and facial discrimination, and peripheral visual functions, such as motion detection, visual localization, visuomotor synchronization, and Vernier acuity (measured in the periphery), are specifically enhanced in the deaf, compared with hearing participants. Furthermore, the cortical loci identified to mediate these functions reside in deaf auditory cortex: BA 41, BA 42, and BA 22, in addition to the rostral area, planum temporale, Te3, and temporal voice area in humans; primary auditory cortex, anterior auditory field, dorsal zone of auditory cortex, auditory field of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus, and posterior auditory field in cats; and primary auditory cortex and anterior auditory field in both ferrets and mice. Overall, the findings from these studies show that crossmodal reorganization in auditory cortex of the deaf is responsible for the superior visual abilities of the deaf.
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Liu J, Liang M, Chen Y, Wang Y, Cai Y, Chen S, Chen L, Li X, Qiu Z, Jiang J, Wang J, Zheng Y. Visual cortex activation decrement following cochlear implantation in prelingual deafened children. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2017; 99:85-89. [PMID: 28688572 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2017.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Revised: 04/05/2017] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Visual take-over of the auditory cortex in prelingual deaf children has been widely reported. However, there have been few studies on visual cortex plasticity after cochlear implantation (CI). In this study, we investigated the hypothesis that extrinsic auditory stimulation following CI in prelingual deafened children can induce visual cortex plasticity. METHOD Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded in 37 CI children (4 groups with different use times) and 8 control subjects, in response to sound and nonsound stimuli. Latency and amplitude were analyzed for the P1, N1 and P2 components on the Oz electrode. Comparisons of VEP were conducted between the sound and nonsound stimuli and among different groups in order to view evidence of visual cortex reorganization. RESULTS The latency of the P2 component was significantly longer at the occipital site (Oz) in CI 0M than those in the other four groups. After the effect of age was excluded, a significant negative correlation was found between CI usage and P2 latency of nonsound stimuli. Occipital P1N1 latency and P1 amplitude were not affected by group or stimulus category. However, the N1 and P2 amplitudes were significantly larger in response to a sound stimulus than to a nonsound stimulus. CONCLUSION Our findings suggest that P2 latency develops with CI usage and may be a biomarker of visual cortex plasticity.
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- Jiahao Liu
- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, and Institute of Hearing and Speech-Language Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Hearing and Speech Science, Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
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