Detection and Identification of Monaural and Binaural Pitch Contours in Dyslexic Listeners

Santurette, Sébastien; Poelmans, Hanne; Luts, Heleen; Ghesquière, Pol; Wouters, Jan; Dau, Torsten

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“…The ability of the listeners to detect and identify pitch contours generated with BP and MP stimuli were measured and compared, using a procedure similar to that described in Santurette et al (2010). In each trial, a sequence of five musical notes [Table II(a)], corresponding to frequencies within the range of strongest salience of Huggins' pitch (Santurette and Dau, 2007), were presented to the listeners, such that they formed one of the five possible pitch contours listed in Table II (b).…”

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“…The BP and MP stimuli were generated and adjusted for equivalent pitch salience as described in Santurette et al (2010). In that study, following a salience-adjustment experiment in NH listeners, a linear relationship 1 was derived between the broadband-noise level and the level of the additional narrow-band noise in MP producing an equally-salient TABLE I.…”

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“…The ability of the listeners to detect tonal targets and process pitch sequences in background noise may be influenced by high-level factors linked to global processing speed of sensory stimuli, working memory processing and capacity, and decision making, as suggested by studies investigating binaural pitch perception in dyslexic listeners (Chait et al, 2007;Santurette et al, 2010). Moreover, there is evidence that reduced processing speed and working-memory deficits play a role in the difficulty of HI listeners to understand speech in adverse conditions (e.g., van Rooij et al, 1989;van Rooij and Plomp, 1990;Lunner, 2003;Foo et al, 2007).…”

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Relating binaural pitch perception to the individual listener’s auditory profile

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2012

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The ability of eight normal-hearing listeners and fourteen listeners with sensorineural hearing loss to detect and identify pitch contours was measured for binaural-pitch stimuli and salience-matched monaurally detectable pitches. In an effort to determine whether impaired binaural pitch perception was linked to a specific deficit, the auditory profiles of the individual listeners were characterized using measures of loudness perception, cognitive ability, binaural processing, temporal fine structure processing, and frequency selectivity, in addition to common audiometric measures. Two of the listeners were found not to perceive binaural pitch at all, despite a clear detection of monaural pitch. While both binaural and monaural pitches were detectable by all other listeners, identification scores were significantly lower for binaural than for monaural pitch. A total absence of binaural pitch sensation coexisted with a loss of a binaural signal-detection advantage in noise, without implying reduced cognitive function. Auditory filter bandwidths did not correlate with the difference in pitch identification scores between binaural and monaural pitches. However, subjects with impaired binaural pitch perception showed deficits in temporal fine structure processing. Whether the observed deficits stemmed from peripheral or central mechanisms could not be resolved here, but the present findings may be useful for hearing loss characterization.

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2012

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“…Earlier speech work has demonstrated both pitch contour and rhythmic information to provide cues relevant to the parsing of the speech stream, in normal infants as well as in adults ( Jusczyk et al., 1992; Smith et al., 1989 ). Recent work on basic pitch contour processing has reported deficits in dyslexic adults ( Santurette et al., 2010 ), a deficit specific for the detection of local but not global changes in pitch contours in dyslexic children age 11 ( Ziegler et al., 2012 ), as well as a specific, significant correlation for the more abstract “global” perceptual processing of transposed contours with reading ability in typically developing young adults ( Foxton et al., 2003 ). Goswami and co-workers have looked at rhythmic amplitude modulation and musical rhythm processing in relationship to phonological language and literacy skills.…”

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Exploring the role of auditory analysis in atypical compared to typical language development

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The relationship between auditory processing and language skills has been debated for decades. Previous findings have been inconsistent, both in typically developing and impaired subjects, including those with dyslexia or specific language impairment. Whether correlations between auditory and language skills are consistent between different populations has hardly been addressed at all. The present work presents an exploratory approach of testing for patterns of correlations in a range of measures of auditory processing. In a recent study, we reported findings from a large cohort of eleven-year olds on a range of auditory measures and the data supported a specific role for the processing of short sequences in pitch and time in typical language development. Here we tested whether a group of individuals with dyslexic traits (DT group; n = 28) from the same year group would show the same pattern of correlations between auditory and language skills as the typically developing group (TD group; n = 173). Regarding the raw scores, the DT group showed a significantly poorer performance on the language but not the auditory measures, including measures of pitch, time and rhythm, and timbre (modulation). In terms of correlations, there was a tendency to decrease in correlations between short-sequence processing and language skills, contrasted by a significant increase in correlation for basic, single-sound processing, in particular in the domain of modulation. The data support the notion that the fundamental relationship between auditory and language skills might differ in atypical compared to typical language development, with the implication that merging data or drawing inference between populations might be problematic. Further examination of the relationship between both basic sound feature analysis and music-like sound analysis and language skills in impaired populations might allow the development of appropriate training strategies. These might include types of musical training to augment language skills via their common bases in sound sequence analysis.This article is part of a Special Issue entitled .

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“…However, some studies of auditory processing in dyslexia have used other stimuli (such as gap detection or detection of interaural time-differences), the detection of which also depend on phase-locking. These studies have provided mixed results of group differences, and overall the evidence for a generalised deficit in a basic, peripheral sensory impairment of phase locking in dyslexia is weak and inconsistent (Dougherty, Cynader, Bjornson, Edgell, & Giaschi, 1998;Edwards et al, 2004;McAnally & Stein, 1996;Patterson, Uppenkamp, Johnsrude, & Griffiths, 2002;Putter-Katz, Feldman, & Hildesheimer, 2011;cf., Amitay, Ahissar, & Nelken, 2002;Chait et al, 2007;Johnson et al, 2013;Santurette et al, 2010). Pitch perception (cf.…”

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Auditory frequency discrimination in developmental dyslexia: A meta‐analysis

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Auditory frequency discrimination has been used as an index of sensory processing in developmental language disorders such as dyslexia, where group differences have often been interpreted as evidence for a basic deficit in auditory processing that underpins and constrains individual variability in the development of phonological skills. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the cumulative evidence for group differences in frequency discrimination and to explore the impact of some potential moderator variables that could contribute to variability in effect-size estimations across studies. Our analyses revealed mean effect sizes for group differences on frequency discrimination tasks on the order of three-quarters of a standard deviation, but in the presence of substantial inter-study variability in their magnitude. Moderator variable analyses indicated that factors related both to participant variability on behavioural and cognitive variables associated with the dyslexia phenotype, and to variability in the task design, contributed to differences in the magnitude of effect size across studies. The apparently complex pattern of results was compounded by the lack of concurrent, standardised metrics of cognitive and reading component skills across the constituent studies.Differences on sensory processing tasks are often reported in studies of developmental disorders, but these need to be

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Detection and Identification of Monaural and Binaural Pitch Contours in Dyslexic Listeners

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Relating binaural pitch perception to the individual listener’s auditory profile

Relating binaural pitch perception to the individual listener’s auditory profile

Exploring the role of auditory analysis in atypical compared to typical language development

Auditory frequency discrimination in developmental dyslexia: A meta‐analysis

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