Audiovisual speech perception and language acquisition in preterm infants: A longitudinal study

Imafuku, Masahiro; Kawai, Masahiko; Niwa, Fusako; Shinya, Yuta; Myowa, Masako

doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2018.11.001

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“…From shortly after birth, infants preferentially direct their vision to social content and later maintain this preference when presented with multiple object arrays (Gliga, Elsabbagh, Andravizou, & 2019). Gaze studies in preterm infants have also shown a consistent pattern of reduced social attentional preference and learning, in both visual and auditory contexts (Frie, Padilla, Aden, Lagercrantz, & Bartocci, 2016;Gogate, 2020;Gogate, Maganti, & Perenyi, 2014;Imafuku et al, 2017;Imafuku et al, 2019;Pereira et al, 2017;Telford et al, 2016). However, the stability of these differences over time, and whether they contribute to the ontogeny of neurodevelopmental and/or cognitive impairment, is unknown.…”

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“…Early divergence from this trajectory has been observed in children who later receive a diagnosis of autism (Chawarska, Macari, & Shic, 2013; Jones, Carr, & Klin, 2008), leading to the suggestion that reduced fixation on social content (hereafter, reduced social attentional preference) may be an early marker of atypical social cognition (Gogate, 2020; Imafuku, Kawai, Niwa, Shinya, & Myowa, 2019). Gaze studies in preterm infants have also shown a consistent pattern of reduced social attentional preference and learning, in both visual and auditory contexts (Frie, Padilla, Aden, Lagercrantz, & Bartocci, 2016; Gogate, 2020; Gogate, Maganti, & Perenyi, 2014; Imafuku et al, 2017; Imafuku et al, 2019; Pereira et al, 2017; Telford et al, 2016). However, the stability of these differences over time, and whether they contribute to the ontogeny of neurodevelopmental and/or cognitive impairment, is unknown.…”

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Eye‐tracking for longitudinal assessment of social cognition in children born preterm

Dean

Ginnell

Ledsham

et al. 2020

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background and objectives: Preterm birth is associated with atypical social cognition in infancy, and cognitive impairment and social difficulties in childhood. Little is known about the stability of social cognition through childhood, and its relationship with neurodevelopment. We used eye-tracking in preterm and term-born infants to investigate social attentional preference in infancy and at 5 years, its relationship with neurodevelopment and the influence of socioeconomic deprivation. Methods: A cohort of 81 preterm and 66 term infants with mean (range) gestational age at birth 28 +5 (23 +2-33 +0) and 40 +0 (37 +0-42 +1) respectively, completed eye-tracking at 7-9 months, with a subset reassessed at 5 years. Three free-viewing social tasks of increasing stimulus complexity were presented, and a social preference score was derived from looking time to socially informative areas. Socioeconomic data and the Mullen Scales of Early Learning at 5 years were collected. Results: Preterm children had lower social preference scores at 7-9 months compared with term-born controls. Term-born children's scores were stable between time points, whereas preterm children showed a significant increase, reaching equivalent scores by 5 years. Low gestational age and socioeconomic deprivation were associated with reduced social preference scores at 7-9 months. At 5 years, preterm infants had lower Early Learning Composite scores than controls, but this was not associated with social attentional preference in infancy or at 5 years. Conclusions: Preterm children have reduced social attentional preference at 7-9 months compared with term-born controls, but catch up by 5 years. Infant social cognition is influenced by socioeconomic deprivation and gestational age. Social cognition and neurodevelopment have different trajectories following preterm birth.

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Eye‐tracking for longitudinal assessment of social cognition in children born preterm

Dean

Ginnell

Ledsham

et al. 2020

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Their fragile neurosensory system was likely overwhelmed by the word–object mapping context, where mothers often used synchronous naming especially to younger infants. Their delayed perception (of synchrony, Gogate et al, ; face–voice synchrony, Pickens et al, ; Imafuku et al, ) implies a missed opportunity to learn word–object relations from mothers at both visits, requiring alternate learning mechanisms (Gogate & Hollich, ). Mothers reported a receptive vocabulary in their preterm infants of 12 months (Table ).…”

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“…The longitudinal sample comprised 80 mothers and infants, 40 term (GA 37‐40 weeks completed) and 40 preterm (GA 31 weeks, 6 days–36 weeks, 3 days), seen at chronological age 6–9 and 12 months (see corrected ages in Table ). Even low‐risk preterm infants exhibit auditory–visual perception delays (Gogate et al, ; Imafuku et al, ; Pickens et al, ). Therefore, borderline preterm infants (GA 32–36 weeks) were selected.…”

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“…They failed to match one of two faces with a synchronous voice at 3, 5, and 7 months (Pickens, Field, Nawrocki, Martinez, Soutullo et al, 1994). Delayed face-voice synchrony perception at 6-month corrected age is positively correlated with vocabulary at 12 and 18 months (Imafuku, Kawai, Niwa, Shinya, & Myowa, 2018). Low-risk preterm infants (GA 32-36 weeks) at 2-month chronological and corrected ages also show attenuated syllableobject synchrony perception relative to term infants matched for age, ethnicity, and socio-economic status (Gogate et al, 2014).…”

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Maternal object naming is less adapted to preterm infants’ than to term infants’ word mapping

Gogate

2019

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background Term infants learn word–object relations in their first year during multisensory interactions with caregivers. Although preterm infants often experience language delays, little is known about how caregivers contribute to their early word–object learning. The present longitudinal study compared maternal naming and word learning in these infant groups. Methods Forty moderately preterm and 40 term infants participated at 6–9 and 12 months with their mothers. At each visit, mothers named two novel objects during play, and infants’ learning was assessed using dynamic displays of the familiar and novel (mismatched) word–object relations. Infants’ general cognitive, language, and motoric abilities were evaluated. Maternal multisensory naming was coded for synchrony between the target words and object motions and other naming styles. Results During play, although overall maternal naming‐style was similar across infant groups within visits, naming frequency increased to term but not preterm infants, from visit 1 to 2. On the test at visit 1, although the term infants’ looked equally to novel and familiar word–object relations, their looking to the novel relations correlated positively with maternal synchrony use but inversely with naming frequency. At visit 2, term infants looked longer to the novel relations. In contrast, preterm infants showed no looking preference at either visit. Neither was their word–object learning correlated with maternal naming. Their cognition, language, and motor scores were attenuated when compared to term infants on the Bayley‐III but not their MCDI vocabulary. Conclusions Less adaptive maternal naming and delayed word mapping in moderately preterm infants underscore a critical need for multisensory language intervention prior to first‐word onset to alleviate its cascading effects on later language.

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Language Impairment in Children of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes, Preeclampsia, and Preterm Delivery: Current Hypothesis and Potential Underlying Mechanisms

Torres

Celis

Acurio

et al. 2023

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

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Audiovisual speech perception and language acquisition in preterm infants: A longitudinal study

Cited by 16 publications

References 40 publications

Eye‐tracking for longitudinal assessment of social cognition in children born preterm

Eye‐tracking for longitudinal assessment of social cognition in children born preterm

Maternal object naming is less adapted to preterm infants’ than to term infants’ word mapping

Language Impairment in Children of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes, Preeclampsia, and Preterm Delivery: Current Hypothesis and Potential Underlying Mechanisms

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