Deficits in auditory temporal and spectral resolution in language- impaired children

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6629, 1997, Pages 176-178

  Wright, Beverly A ^a,d   Lombardino, Linda J ^b   King, Wayne M ^b   Puranik, Cynthia S ^b   Leonard, Christiana M ^c   Merzenich, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SOUND DETECTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0030952478     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387176a0     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Proc. Natl Conf. on Learning Disabilities Bethesda, Maryland, 12 and 13 January 1987 (York, Parkton, MD, 1988).
2. Catts, H. W. The relationship between speech-language impairments and reading disabiities. J. Speech Hear. Res. 36, 948-958 (1993).
3. Aaron, P. G., Kuchta, S. & Grapenthin, C. T. Is there a thing called dyslexia? Annals Dyslexia 36, 33-49 (1988).
4. Aram, D. & Nation, J. Patterns of preschool language disorders. J. Speech Hear. Res. 18, 229-241 (1975).
5. Vellutino, F. R., Steger, B. M., Moyer, S. C., Harding, C. J. & Niles, J. A. Has the perceptual deficit hypothesis led us astray? J. Learn. Dis. 10, 375-385 (1977).
6. Studdert-Kennedy, M. & Mody, M. Auditory temporal perception deficits in the reading-impaired: A critical review of the evidence. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 2, 508-514 (1995).
7. Tallal, P. & Piercy, M. Defects of non-verbal auditory perception in children with developmental aphasia. Nature 241, 468-469 (1973).
8. Frumkin, B. & Rapin, I. Perception of vowels and consonant-vowels of varying duration in language impaired children. Neuropsychologia 18, 443-454 (1980).
9. Lubert, N. Auditory perceptual impairments in children with specific language disorders: A review of the literature. J. Speech Hear. Dis. 46, 3-9 (1981).
10. Elliott, L. L., Hammer, M. A. & Scholl, M. E. Fine-grained auditory discrimination in normal children and children with language-learning problems. J. Speech Hear. Res. 32, 112-119 (1989).
11. Kraus, N. et al. Auditory neurophysiologic responses and discrimination deficits in children with learning problems. Science 273, 971-973 (1996).
12. Fastl, H. Temporal masking effects: II. Critical band noise masker. Acustica 36, 317-330 (1976/77).
13. Soderquist, D. R., Carstens, A. A. & Frank, G. J. H. Backward, simultaneous, and forward masking as a function of signal delay and frequency. J. Aud. Res. 21, 227-245 (1981).
14. Patterson, R. D., Nimmo-Smith, I., Weber, D. L. & Milroy, R. The deterioration of hearing with age: Frequency selectivity, the critical ratio, the audiogram, and speech threshold. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72, 1788-1803 (1982).
15. Patterson, R. D. & Moore, B. C. J. in Frequency Selectivity in Hearing (ed. Moore, B. C. J.) 123-176 (Academic, New York, 1986).
16. Moore, B. C. J., Poon, P. W. F., Bacon, S. P. & Glasberg, B. R. The temporal course of masking and the auditory filter shape. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81, 1873-1880 (1987).
17. Carlyon, R. P. Changes in the masked thresholds of brief tones produced by prior bursts of noise. Hear. Res. 41, 223-236 (1989).
18. Merzenich, M. M. et al. Temporal processing deficits of language-learning impaired children ameliorated by training. Science 271, 77-81 (1996).
19. Tallal, P. et al. Language comprehension in language-learning impaired children improved with acoustically modified speech. Science 271, 81-84 (1996).
20. Farmer, M. E. & Klein, R. M. The evidence for a temporal processing deficit linked to dyslexia: A review. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 2, 460-493 (1995).
21. Bradley, L. & Bryant, P. E. Difficulties in auditory organisation as a possible cause of reading backwardness. Nature 271, 746-747 (1978).
22. Gauger, L. M., Lombardino, L. J. & Leonard, C. M. Brain morphology in children with specific language impairment. J. Speech Hear. Res. (in the press).
23. Green, D. M. Stimulus selection in adaptive psychophysical procedures. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 2662-2674 (1990).
24. Wagenaar, W. A. Note on the construction of digram-balanced latin squares. Psych. Bull. 72, 384-386 (1969).
25. Semel, E., Wiig, E. & Secord, W. The clinical evaluation of language fundamentals revised (Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, Texas, 1987).
26. Brown, L., Sherbenou, R. J. & Johnson, S. K. Test of nonverbal intelligence (Pro-Ed, Austin, Texas, 1990).