Auditory and speech processing and reading development in Chinese school children: Behavioural and ERP evidence

Dyslexia

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 292-310

  Meng, Xiangzhi ^a   Sai, Xiaoguang ^a   Wang, Cixin ^a   Wang, Jue ^a   Sha, Shuying ^a   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Developmental dyslexia; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Speech perception; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AWARENESS; CHINA; CHINESE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 29444449019     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.309     Document Type: Article

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