Regular rhythmic primes boost P600 in grammatical error processing in dyslexic adults and matched controls

Canette, Laure-Hélène; Fiveash, Anna; Krzonowski, Jennifer; Corneyllie, Alexandra; Lalitte, Philippe; Thompson, Dave; Trainor, Laurel J.; Bedoin, Nathalie; Tillmann, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107324

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“…Building on these observed connections, a few studies have aimed to apply rhythm training approaches in children with dyslexia and found improved language- and reading-related skills after training ( Bonacina, Cancer, Lanzi, Lorusso, & Antonietti, 2015 ; Flaugnacco et al, 2015 ; Habib et al, 2016 ; Overy, 2000 ; Thomson, Leong, & Goswami, 2013 ). Interestingly, even a short presentation of rhythmic musical primes improves grammatical processing of subsequently presented sentences in children ( Przybylski et al, 2013 ) and adults ( Canette et al, 2019 ) with dyslexia. These results further support the hypothesis that rhythm and language processing are related, and show that music rhythm training in the long-term and rhythm stimulation in the short-term may be useful approaches to improve language skills in addition to more traditional language-centered therapeutic methods ( Schön & Tillmann, 2015 ).…”

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Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?

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Although a growing literature points to substantial variation in speech/language abilities related to individual differences in musical abilities, mainstream models of communication sciences and disorders have not yet incorporated these individual differences into childhood speech/language development. This article reviews three sources of evidence in a comprehensive body of research aligning with three main themes: (a) associations between musical rhythm and speech/language processing, (b) musical rhythm in children with developmental speech/language disorders and common comorbid attentional and motor disorders, and (c) individual differences in mechanisms underlying rhythm processing in infants and their relationship with later speech/language development. In light of converging evidence on associations between musical rhythm and speech/language processing, we propose the Atypical Rhythm Risk Hypothesis, which posits that individuals with atypical rhythm are at higher risk for developmental speech/language disorders. The hypothesis is framed within the larger epidemiological literature in which recent methodological advances allow for large-scale testing of shared underlying biology across clinically distinct disorders. A series of predictions for future work testing the Atypical Rhythm Risk Hypothesis are outlined. We suggest that if a significant body of evidence is found to support this hypothesis, we can envision new risk factor models that incorporate atypical rhythm to predict the risk of developing speech/language disorders. Given the high prevalence of speech/language disorders in the population and the negative long-term social and economic consequences of gaps in identifying children at-risk, these new lines of research could potentially positively impact access to early identification and treatment.

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Section: Atypical Rhythm In Children With Atypical Speech/language Dementioning

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Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?

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“…The current analysis focuses on the musical material (i.e., regular and irregular rhythmic sequences) that were presented interleaved with auditory sentences in a rhythmic priming paradigm. Building on behavioral data showing improved grammaticality judgements after having listened to regular primes in comparison to irregular primes in dyslexic children (Przybylski et al, 2013), Canette et al (2019) showed that the electrophysiological marker of syntax violation detection, the P600, was enhanced after regular compared to irregular primes in dyslexic adults and matched controls. Canette et al (2019) only analyzed the ERPs for the sentences presented after the primes.…”

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“…However, the dyslexic students in the current study largely had difficulties with phonology, which can be considered to be phonological or mixed forms of dyslexia, as commonly observed within the dyslexia pathology. See Canette et al (2019) and Supplementary Table 1 for more information.…”

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“…Participants heard 288 unique sentences in total (half grammatical, half un Fiveash et al Brain and Cognition xxx (xxxx) xxx-xxx grammatical). For a more detailed presentation of the sentence material, see Canette et al (2019).…”

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“…Rhythm production for both measures was analyzed with circular statistics (Berens, 2009;Dalla Bella & Sowiński, 2015), resulting in measures of angle (re-transformed into ms) as a measure of precision (e.g., how accurate they were at predicting the beat), and R as a measure of consistency (e.g., how consistently were they close to the beat), with values from 0 to 1 (1 being the most consistent). Full results are reported in Canette et al (2019). For the current analysis, we focused on tapping at the 550 IOI tempo, as this is the closest to the beat rate of the regular rhythms.…”

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A stimulus-brain coupling analysis of regular and irregular rhythms in adults with dyslexia and controls

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When listening to temporally regular rhythms, most people are able to extract the beat. Evidence suggests that the neural mechanism underlying this ability is the phase alignment of endogenous oscillations to the external stimulus, allowing for the prediction of upcoming events (i.e., dynamic attending). Relatedly, individuals with dyslexia may have deficits in the entrainment of neural oscillations to external stimuli, especially at low frequencies. The current experiment investigated rhythmic processing in adults with dyslexia and matched controls. Regular and irregular rhythms were presented to participants while electroencephalography was recorded. Regular rhythms contained the beat at 2 Hz; while acoustic energy was maximal at 4 Hz and 8 Hz. These stimuli allowed us to investigate whether the brain responds non-linearly to the beat-level of a rhythmic stimulus, and whether beat-based processing differs between dyslexic and control participants. Both groups showed enhanced stimulus-brain coherence for regular compared to irregular rhythms at the frequencies of interest, with an overrepresentation of the beat-level in the brain compared to the acoustic signal. In addition, we found evidence that controls extracted subtle temporal regularities from irregular stimuli, whereas dyslexics did not. Findings are discussed in relation to dynamic attending theory and rhythmic processing deficits in dyslexia.

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Virtual reality head mounted display (VR HMD) systems are increasingly utilised in combination with electroencephalography (EEG) in the experimental study of cognitive tasks. The aim of our investigation was to determine the similarities/differences between VR HMD and the computer screen (CS) in response to an n-back working memory task by comparing visual electrophysiological event-related potential (ERP) waveforms (N1/P1/P3 components). The same protocol was undertaken for VR HMD and CS with participants wearing the same EEG headcap. ERP waveforms obtained with the VR HMD environment followed a similar time course to those acquired in CS. The P3 mean and peak amplitudes obtained in VR HMD were not significantly different to those obtained in CS. In contrast, the N1 component was significantly higher in mean and peak amplitudes for the VR HMD environment compared to CS at the frontal electrodes. Significantly higher P1 mean and peak amplitudes were found at the occipital region compared to the temporal for VR HMD. Our results show that successful acquisition of ERP components to a working memory task is achievable by combining VR HMD with EEG. In addition, the higher amplitude N1/P1 components seen in VR HMD indicates the potential utility of this VR modality in the investigation of early ERPs. In conclusion, the combination of VR HMD with EEG/ERP would be a useful approach to advance the study of cognitive function in experimental brain research.

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Regular rhythmic primes boost P600 in grammatical error processing in dyslexic adults and matched controls

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Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?

Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?

A stimulus-brain coupling analysis of regular and irregular rhythms in adults with dyslexia and controls

A comparative experimental study of visual brain event-related potentials to a working memory task: virtual reality head-mounted display versus a desktop computer screen

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