Infant discrimination of rapid auditory cues predicts later language impairment

Benasich, April A.; Tallal, Paula

doi:10.1016/s0166-4328(02)00098-0

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“…Decreases in S-R correlations and the reduced magnitude of the FFR, specifically in the frequency composition of F 1 , have also been found in children with learning problems (Cunningham et al, 2001). Benasich and Tallal (2002) reported that behavioral measures of central auditory function, obtained in children under 1 year of age (mean age = 7.5 months), can serve as predictors for subsequent specific language impairments (SLI) and other developmental language delays. Due to the early maturation of the brainstem response, the brainstem measures described in this paper, might provide a biological marker for early detection of central auditory deficits that may dovetail with these behavioral findings.…”

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Brainstem responses to speech syllables

Russo

Nicol

Musacchia

et al. 2004

Clinical Neurophysiology

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Objective-To establish reliable procedures and normative values to quantify brainstem encoding of speech sounds.Methods-Auditory brainstem responses to speech syllables presented in quiet and in background noise were obtained from 38 normal children. Brainstem responses consist of transient and sustained, periodic components-much like the speech signal itself. Transient peak responses were analyzed with measures of latency, amplitude, area, and slope. Magnitude of sustained, periodic frequencyfollowing responses was assessed with root mean square, fundamental frequency, and first formant amplitudes; timing was assessed by stimulus-to-response and quiet-to-noise inter-response correlations.Results-Measures of transient and sustained components of the brainstem response to speech syllables were reliably obtained with high test-retest stability and low variability across subjects. All components of the brainstem response were robust in quiet. Background noise disrupted the transient responses whereas the sustained response was more resistant to the deleterious effects of noise.Conclusions-The speech-evoked brainstem response faithfully reflects many acoustic properties of the speech signal. Procedures to quantitatively describe it have been developed.Significance-Accurate and precise manifestation of stimulus timing at the auditory brainstem is a hallmark of the normal perceptual system. The brainstem response to speech sounds provides a mechanism for understanding the neural bases of normal and deficient attention-independent auditory function.

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confidence: 99%

Brainstem responses to speech syllables

Russo

Nicol

Musacchia

et al. 2004

Clinical Neurophysiology

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“…Early deficits in rapid auditory processing also have been shown to have an impact on later language. Those infants who have greater difficulty in processing rapidly presented sounds are at great risk for later language impairment (Benasich and Tallal, 2002;Benasich et al ,2006. The acquisition of object permanence is an important milestone in cognitive development and is also a precursor to later executive functioning skills (Diamond, 2002).…”

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“…Further, several studies have suggested that efficient rapid auditory processing (RAP) ability is important for later language skill; performance on RAP tasks in infancy have been shown to relate to later language performance, both in normally developing infants and in those with a family history of language impairment (Benasich and Tallal, 2002;Molfese and Molfese, 1997;Trehub and Henderson, 1996). The ability to detect rapid changes in auditory information is critical for decoding language, as the majority of speech sounds (phonemes) constitute consonants, which are characterized by rapid frequency changes called formant transitions.…”

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“…While it is not possible to lesion the brains of human infants, there is a natural experiment available to investigators in the form of infants who are at higher risk for LLI as a result of being born into a family with a history of SLI or dyslexia (Choudhury and Benasich, 2003;Benasich and Tallal, 2002;Lyytinen et al, 2004), or older children who have been diagnosed with some form of LLI. ERP studies have been conducted to investigate possible differences in brain responses to rapidly changing acoustic information between infants at familial risk for dyslexia and control participants.…”

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Development of structure and function in the infant brain: Implications for cognition, language and social behaviour

Paterson

Heim

Friedman

et al. 2006

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience have allowed us to begin investigating the development of both structure and function in the infant brain. However, despite the rapid evolution of technology, surprisingly few studies have examined the intersection between brain and behaviour over the first years of life. Even fewer have done so in the context of a particular research question. This paper aims to provide an overview of four domains that have been studied using techniques amenable to elucidating the brain/behaviour interface: language, face processing, object permanence, and joint attention, with particular emphasis on studies focusing on early development. The importance of the unique role of development and the interplay between structure and function is stressed throughout. It is hoped that this review will serve as a catalyst for further thinking about the substantial gaps in our understanding of the relationship between brain and behaviour across development. Further, our aim is to provide ideas about candidate brain areas that are likely to be implicated in particular behaviours or cognitive domains.

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“…The impact of such chemical intoxication is not restricted to the human body development but goes beyond that, affecting the emotional, mental functioning of the organism. Maternal smoking during pregnancy is a risk for abortion (Castles, Adams, Melvin, Kelsch, & Boulton, 1999), preterm delivery (Castles et al, 1999;Kaddar et al, 2009;Shah & Bracken, 2000), respiratory disease (Cook & Strachan, 1999), immune system difficulties such as asthma and allergies (Prescott & Clifton, 2009), and cancer later in life (Doherty, Grabowski, Hoffman, Ng, & Zelikoff, 2009), alterations to the development and function of the placenta (Einarson & Riordan, 2009), delayed psychomotor and mental developmental scores as measured by the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (Kiechl-Kohlendorfer et al, 2010), may negatively impact a child's future speech and language development (Benasich & Tallal, 2002;Kable et al, 2009;Molfese, 2000), is responsible for physical aggression during early childhood (Huijbregts, Seguin, Zoccolillo, Boivin, & Tremblay, 2007;2008). Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is connected with parental smoking (Flemming & Blair, 2015).…”

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The Contribution of Prenatal Psychology to Our Understanding about Prenatal Dynamics and Fetal Behaviour

Gouni¹,

Sekulić²,

Topalidou³

2016

JPR

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Research in the prenatal human experience has very clearly shown that whatever mother experiences all her life until conception and even more impactfully during conception and pregnancy passes down to the child she is pregnant with.Modern Biology has shown that environmental information and the perception that governs this environment gets encoded in the cell consciousness. A simple thought or act can upset or stabilize the whole planet or... fetal existence.Subtle differences in the motivation of our choices may have the power to bring about radically different conditions in the process of events. A simple thought of fear can lead to a trauma, a disease, a holocaust while a simple thought of compassion can take humanity out of the platonic cave into the healing light of creation. Is there anything we can do?Can we learn from what we already know about prenatal dynamics and move on to design and implement salutogenic processes for the benefit of all involved? The paper will attempt to show the most important findings about prenatal dynamics and fetal existence and how they are connected with our postnatal health and wellbeing from the times of Freud and especially his students who took psychoanalysis from the childhood to birth experience and then to pregnancy and conception and beyond.

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Infant discrimination of rapid auditory cues predicts later language impairment

Cited by 346 publications

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Brainstem responses to speech syllables

Brainstem responses to speech syllables

Development of structure and function in the infant brain: Implications for cognition, language and social behaviour

The Contribution of Prenatal Psychology to Our Understanding about Prenatal Dynamics and Fetal Behaviour

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