Why and how music can be used to rehabilitate and develop speech and language skills in hearing-impaired children

Torppa, Ritva; Huotilainen, Minna

doi:10.1016/j.heares.2019.06.003

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“…This raises the questions of how much training is required and which aspects the training should include to translate to behavior, both inside and outside the laboratory setting. Clearly, the identification of optimal interventions is a joint mission for future research that goes hand in hand with the development of solid conceptual [ 41 , 42 ] and neurophysiological frameworks [ 27 ] to identify the key variables underlying the amelioration of speech and language processing through rhythm and music [ 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 ].…”

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Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language

Sammler

Elmer

2020

Brain Sciences

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Neurocomparative music and language research has seen major advances over the past two decades. The goal of this Special Issue “Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language” was to showcase the multiple neural analogies between musical and linguistic information processing, their entwined organization in human perception and cognition and to infer the applicability of the combined knowledge in pedagogy and therapy. Here, we summarize the main insights provided by the contributions and integrate them into current frameworks of rhythm processing, neuronal entrainment, predictive coding and cognitive control.

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Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language

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Elmer

2020

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“…Finally, EEG results seem to show qualitatively similar semantic processing in spoken and sung sentences, with a quantitative difference displayed in a delayed N400 component. These EEG findings might be important with respect to hearing impaired patients who clearly show more behavioral difficulties in extracting meaning from sung sentences as from spoken speech [8] but also benefits from a musical training [21,22]. These findings are moreover interesting in the light of therapeutic interventions such as melodic intonation therapy (MIT) postulating a beneficial effect on language processing in aphasic patients through singing [15,16].…”

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“…Furthermore, music is beneficial for language production abilities during rehabilitation of language disorders such as aphasia [15][16][17][18][19]. Furthermore, deaf children supplied with a cochlear implant were found to benefit from musical training as they improve auditory abilities as well as language production and perception [20][21][22]. We are primarily interested in neural mechanisms as a direct measure of semantic processing and will compare these to behavioral performance during a correctness judgement task.…”

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How the Brain Understands Spoken and Sung Sentences

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The present study investigates whether meaning is similarly extracted from spoken and sung sentences. For this purpose, subjects listened to semantically correct and incorrect sentences while performing a correctness judgement task. In order to examine underlying neural mechanisms, a multi-methodological approach was chosen combining two neuroscientific methods with behavioral data. In particular, fast dynamic changes reflected in the semantically associated N400 component of the electroencephalography (EEG) were simultaneously assessed with the topographically more fine-grained vascular signals acquired by the functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). EEG results revealed a larger N400 for incorrect compared to correct sentences in both spoken and sung sentences. However, the N400 was delayed for sung sentences, potentially due to the longer sentence duration. fNIRS results revealed larger activations for spoken compared to sung sentences irrespective of semantic correctness at predominantly left-hemispheric areas, potentially suggesting a greater familiarity with spoken material. Furthermore, the fNIRS revealed a widespread activation for correct compared to incorrect sentences irrespective of modality, potentially indicating a successful processing of sentence meaning. The combined results indicate similar semantic processing in speech and song.

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“…These results are organized concisely according to the level in the hierarchy of the auditory processes they address from spectro-temporal discrimination to the perception of speech in noise ( Figure 2). For extensive reviews, we draw the attention of the reader toward two recent reviews on the topic, one for children with CI [21] and one for elderly adults [22]. Although we share the enthusiasm for this line of research.…”

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“…For extensive reviews, we draw the attention of the reader toward two recent reviews on the topic, one for children with CI [21] and one for elderly adults [22]. Although we share the enthusiasm for this line of research.…”

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Musical Training for Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Loss

Lerousseau

Hidalgo

Schön

2020

JCM

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Despite the overall success of cochlear implantation, language outcomes remain suboptimal and subject to large inter-individual variability. Early auditory rehabilitation techniques have mostly focused on low-level sensory abilities. However, a new body of literature suggests that cognitive operations are critical for auditory perception remediation. We argue in this paper that musical training is a particularly appealing candidate for such therapies, as it involves highly relevant cognitive abilities, such as temporal predictions, hierarchical processing, and auditory-motor interactions. We review recent studies demonstrating that music can enhance both language perception and production at multiple levels, from syllable processing to turn-taking in natural conversation.

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Why and how music can be used to rehabilitate and develop speech and language skills in hearing-impaired children

Cited by 55 publications

References 93 publications

Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language

Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language

How the Brain Understands Spoken and Sung Sentences

Musical Training for Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Loss

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