The relationship between auditory temporal analysis and receptive language development: Evidence from studies of developmental language disorder

Tallal, Paula; Stark, Rachel E.; Mellits, David

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“…Although the ability of the auditory cortex to process perceptual tasks that require precise timing (Kelly, Rooney, & Phillips, 1996;Phillips & Farmer, 1990;Tallal, 2003) is relevant to the development of phonological sensitivity and grapheme-phoneme assimilation (Laasonen, Service, & Virsu, 2002;Pammer & Vidyasagar, 2005;Tallal, Stark, & Mellits, 1985b), the present findings imply that auditory temporal acuity may not be causal to pseudoword reading. Higher cognitive or phonological processes might have mediated the correlation between auditory temporal processing and pseudo-for testing visual temporal sensitivity.…”

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The reading ability of good and poor temporal processors among a group of college students

Lovegrove

2008

Perception & Psychophysics

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The reading ability of good and poor temporal processors among a group of college students

Lovegrove

2008

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“…Interestingly, studies of the affected members of the KE family have shown that the oromotor impairments are particularly severe for combinations or sequences of movements, as compared either to single movements or to accuracy in positioning of the tongue and lips (Alcock et al, 2000;Hurst et al, 1990;Vargha-Khadem et al, 1995). Moreover, rapid oral movements are particularly problematic for children with SLI (Tallal et al, 1985a).Motor deficits in SLI are not, however, restricted to face and mouth movements. Numerous studies have documented that children with SLI exhibit deficits in various tests of fine and gross motor function (Hill, 1998;Goorhuis-Brouwer and Wijnberg-Williams, 1996;Gross-Tsur et al, 1996;Noterdaeme et al, 2002;Powell and Bishop, 1992;Wiznitzer et al, 1986), limb praxis and/or coordination (Bishop, 2002;Hill, 1998;Dewey and Wall, 1997;Powell and Bishop, 1992;Schwartz and Regan, 1996), and fine motor skills (Gross-Tsur et al, 1996;Schwartz and Regan, 1996;Trauner et al, 2000;Wiznitzer et al, 1986) such as cutting out a circle, copying shapes, and tracing a maze without crossing lines (Schwartz and Regan, 1996).…”

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Specific Language Impairment is not Specific to Language: the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis

Ullman

Pierpont

2005

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Specific Language Impairment (SLI) has been explained by two broad classes of hypotheses, which posit either a deficit specific to grammar, or a non-linguistic processing impairment. Here we advance an alternative perspective. According to the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis (PDH), SLI can be largely explained by the abnormal development of brain structures that constitute the procedural memory system. This system, which is composed of a network of inter-connected structures rooted in frontal/basal-ganglia circuits, subserves the learning and execution of motor and cognitive skills.Crucially, recent evidence also implicates this system in important aspects of grammar. The PDH posits that a significant proportion of individuals with SLI suffer from abnormalities of this brain network, leading to impairments of the linguistic and non-linguistic functions that depend on it. In contrast, functions such as lexical and declarative memory, which depend on other brain structures, are expected to remain largely spared. Evidence from an in-depth retrospective examination of the literature is presented. It is argued that the data support the predictions of the PDH, and particularly implicate Broca's area within frontal cortex, and the caudate nucleus within the basal ganglia. Finally, broader implications are discussed, and predictions for future research are presented. It is argued that the PDH forms the basis of a novel and potentially productive perspective on SLI. INTRODUCTIONSpecific Language Impairment (SLI) is generally defined as a developmental disorder of language in the absence of frank neurological damage, hearing deficits, severe environmental deprivation, or mental retardation (for diagnostic definitions and prevalence of SLI, see Bishop, 1992;Leonard, 1998;Tomblin et al., 1997). Other terms have also been used to label such children, including developmental dysphasia, language impairment, language learning disability, developmental language disorder, delayed speech and deviant language (Leonard, 1998;Ahmed et al., 2001). Several factors have complicated attempts to provide a unified theory of SLI, or even of subgroups of SLI. First, despite the standard use of exclusionary criteria to diagnose SLI, the disorder is clearly not limited to language.Rather the linguistic impairments co-occur with a number of non-linguistic deficits, including impairments of motor skills and working memory, and with other disorders, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Hill, 2001;Leonard, 1998;Tirosh and Cohen, 1998). Second, even though SLI must be a consequence of some sort of neural dysfunction, the neural correlates of the disorder have been largely ignored. This potentially valuable information could provide important constraints on explanatory accounts of the disorder. Third, SLI is a classification that is quite heterogeneous (Leonard, 1998;Stromswold, 2000). Surveys document variation within and across subgroups in the particular aspects of language that are affected and in the types of co-occurring no...

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“…It suggests that the cerebral hemispheres are specialized for low-level cognitive functions such as temporal resolution. Cerebral asymmetries at this level may play an important role in the development ofother high-level functions, such as language (Tallal, Stark, & Mellitis, 1985).…”

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Hemispheric asymmetries for the temporal resolution of brief auditory stimuli

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Nicholls

1997

Perception & Psychophysics

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This study investigates a left-hemisphere (LH) advantage for the discrimination of fine temporal events within the auditory modality in 24 normal adults. Brief noise bursts were delivered monaurally to the left or right ears, half of which contained a gap lasting between 2 and 8 msec. Subjects were required to indicate whether or not the noise burst contained a gap. Research within this area has yielded conflicting results. It is possible that variations in gap position or the properties of the noise burst may have contributed to this conflict. The effect of gap position was investigated by systematically varying the position of the gap during half of the trials. White noise bursts were used to avoid the use of spectral cues. Reaction time, response bias, and response error measures revealed a right-ear (and hence LH) advantage for gap detection. Stable gap positions were recognized more accurately than variable gap positions. Gap position had no effect on the observed LHadvantage. These results suggest that the auditory properties of noise burst, rather than gap position, play an important role in the discrepancies observed in this area.Research into cerebral asymmetry has suggested that the left hemisphere (LH) and the right hemisphere (RH) of the brain have different capacities for the resolution of sensory information separated by fine moments of time. Some ofthe earliest research within this field was carried out by Efron (1963aEfron ( , 1963b). Efron's experimental paradigm required neurologically normal subjects to judge whether two bilateral stimuli delivered to the left and to the right hands were simultaneous or successive. Subjects tended to judge the stimuli to be simultaneous when the stimulus to the left hand was delivered shortly before the stimulus to the right hand. Efron accounted for these results with a model of hemispheric asymmetry in which the LH was absolutely specialized for temporal processing. Performance asymmetries between the hands were believed to be the result of delays associated with the trans-callosal passage of information from the left hand. These findings have been supported by research conducted by Mills and Rollman (1980) within the auditory modality. Using a bilateral presentation procedure, they found that stimuli delivered to the left ear were perceptually delayed relative to stimuli delivered to the right ear during temporal-order judgments.Asymmetries for temporal processing have also been observed in studies which have employed unilateral presentation procedures (wherein stimuli are presented to the same side within each trial). In research conducted within the visual modality, Nicholls (1994a) has found a right-visual-field advantage for the detection of twoRobert Efron. Soren Suus, and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Correspondence should be addressed to M. E. R. Nicholls, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia (email: nicholls@psych.unimelb.edu.au). flash fus...

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The relationship between auditory temporal analysis and receptive language development: Evidence from studies of developmental language disorder

Cited by 171 publications

References 19 publications

The reading ability of good and poor temporal processors among a group of college students

The reading ability of good and poor temporal processors among a group of college students

Specific Language Impairment is not Specific to Language: the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis

Hemispheric asymmetries for the temporal resolution of brief auditory stimuli

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