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View article: Rhythm Processing Across Development: Origins, Links to Language Processing, and Perspectives for Intervention
Rhythm Processing Across Development: Origins, Links to Language Processing, and Perspectives for Intervention Open
A wealth of research has investigated rhythm processing in music and speech, revealing shared cognitive and neural correlates and potential transfer effects, as evidenced by shared benefits and shared processing difficulties, as well as ef…
View article: The Amplitude Modulation Structure of Japanese Infant- and Child-Directed Speech: Longitudinal Data Reveal Universal Acoustic Physical Structures That Accommodate Both Syllabic and Moraic Timing
The Amplitude Modulation Structure of Japanese Infant- and Child-Directed Speech: Longitudinal Data Reveal Universal Acoustic Physical Structures That Accommodate Both Syllabic and Moraic Timing Open
Infant-directed speech (IDS) is highly rhythmic, and in European languages is dominated by patterns of amplitude modulation (AM) peaking at ~2Hz (reflecting prosody) and ~5Hz (reflecting individual syllables). The rhythm structure of spoke…
View article: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Relations Between Early Rise Time Discrimination Abilities and Pre-School Pre-Reading Assessments: The Seeds of Literacy Are Sown in Infancy
Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Relations Between Early Rise Time Discrimination Abilities and Pre-School Pre-Reading Assessments: The Seeds of Literacy Are Sown in Infancy Open
Background/Objectives: The Seeds of Literacy project has followed infants at family risk for dyslexia (FR group) and infants not at family risk (NFR group) since the age of 5 months, exploring whether infant measures of auditory sensitivit…
View article: Atypical low-frequency and high-frequency neural entrainment to rhythmic audiovisual speech in adults with dyslexia
Atypical low-frequency and high-frequency neural entrainment to rhythmic audiovisual speech in adults with dyslexia Open
Developmental dyslexia has been linked to atypical neural processing of the temporal dynamics of speech, but there has been disagreement concerning whether faster or slower dynamics are impaired. According to the Temporal Sampling (TS) the…
View article: Neural processing of natural speech by children with developmental language disorder (DLD): EEG speech decoding, power and classifier investigations
Neural processing of natural speech by children with developmental language disorder (DLD): EEG speech decoding, power and classifier investigations Open
The sensory/neural Temporal Sampling (TS) theory of developmental language disorder (DLD) is based on the sensory and linguistic impairments in rhythm processing that are found in children with both developmental dyslexia (DD) and DLD. The…
View article: A longitudinal study of tapping to the beat by school-aged children with and without dyslexia: assessments of the mediating role of phonology
A longitudinal study of tapping to the beat by school-aged children with and without dyslexia: assessments of the mediating role of phonology Open
In this article, we report a longitudinal study of the relationship between tapping consistency, phonological awareness, and literacy development in a sample of children initially aged approximately 8 years who were followed for 6 years. T…
View article: The Training of Rhythm Skills and Executive Function: A Systematic Review
The Training of Rhythm Skills and Executive Function: A Systematic Review Open
Objective The focus of this study is on rhythm-elicited movement and its impacts on executive function. The main aim of this review was to identify previous, controlled intervention research on this topic, and to study the effectiveness of…
View article: Infant low-frequency EEG cortical power, cortical tracking and phase-amplitude coupling predicts language a year later
Infant low-frequency EEG cortical power, cortical tracking and phase-amplitude coupling predicts language a year later Open
Cortical signals have been shown to track acoustic and linguistic properties of continuous speech. This phenomenon has been measured in both children and adults, reflecting speech understanding by adults as well as cognitive functions such…
View article: Binaural temporal fine structure sensitivity for children with developmental dyslexia
Binaural temporal fine structure sensitivity for children with developmental dyslexia Open
Purpose. Atypical temporal processing is thought to be involved in the phonological difficulties that characterise children with developmental dyslexia (DYS). The Temporal Sampling (TS) theory of dyslexia (Goswami, 2011) posits that the pr…
View article: Imitation of Multisyllabic Items by Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence for Word-Level Atypical Speech Envelope and Pitch Contours
Imitation of Multisyllabic Items by Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence for Word-Level Atypical Speech Envelope and Pitch Contours Open
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a multifaceted disorder. Recently, interest has grown in prosodic aspects of DLD, but most investigations of possible prosodic causes focus on speech perception tasks. Here, we focus on spe…
View article: Amplitude modulation structure in French and German poetry: universal acoustic physical structures underpin different poetic rhythm structures
Amplitude modulation structure in French and German poetry: universal acoustic physical structures underpin different poetic rhythm structures Open
French and German poetry are classically considered to utilize fundamentally different linguistic structures to create rhythmic regularity. Their metrical rhythm structures are considered poetically to be very different. However, the bioph…
View article: Amplitude rise time sensitivity in children with and without dyslexia: differential task effects and longitudinal relations to phonology and literacy
Amplitude rise time sensitivity in children with and without dyslexia: differential task effects and longitudinal relations to phonology and literacy Open
The speech amplitude envelope carries important acoustic information required for speech intelligibility and contains sensory cues (amplitude rise times, ARTs) that play a key role in both sensory rhythm perception and neural speech encodi…
View article: Atypical low-frequency cortical encoding of speech identifies children with developmental dyslexia
Atypical low-frequency cortical encoding of speech identifies children with developmental dyslexia Open
Slow cortical oscillations play a crucial role in processing the speech amplitude envelope, which is perceived atypically by children with developmental dyslexia. Here we use electroencephalography (EEG) recorded during natural speech list…
View article: Neural processing of rhythmic speech by children with developmental language disorder (DLD): An EEG study
Neural processing of rhythmic speech by children with developmental language disorder (DLD): An EEG study Open
Sensitivity to rhythmic and prosodic cues in speech has been described as a precursor of language acquisition. Consequently, atypical rhythmic processing during infancy and early childhood has been considered a risk factor for developmenta…
View article: Cortical tracking of visual rhythmic speech by 5‐ and 8‐month‐old infants: Individual differences in phase angle relate to language outcomes up to 2 years
Cortical tracking of visual rhythmic speech by 5‐ and 8‐month‐old infants: Individual differences in phase angle relate to language outcomes up to 2 years Open
It is known that the rhythms of speech are visible on the face, accurately mirroring changes in the vocal tract. These low‐frequency visual temporal movements are tightly correlated with speech output, and both visual speech (e.g., mouth m…
View article: Atypical speech production of multisyllabic items by children with developmental language disorder (DLD) indicate prosodic difficulties
Atypical speech production of multisyllabic items by children with developmental language disorder (DLD) indicate prosodic difficulties Open
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is typically characterized by a core grammatical impairment, yet spoken word production can also exhibit atypical phonology, for example the omission of unstressed syllables. This may indicate…
View article: Precursors to infant sensorimotor synchronization to speech and non‐speech rhythms: A longitudinal study
Precursors to infant sensorimotor synchronization to speech and non‐speech rhythms: A longitudinal study Open
Impaired sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) to acoustic rhythm may be a marker of atypical language development. Here, Motion Capture was used to assess gross motor rhythmic movement at six time points between 5‐ and 11 months of age. Infa…
View article: Atypical beta-band effects in children with dyslexia in response to rhythmic audio-visual speech
Atypical beta-band effects in children with dyslexia in response to rhythmic audio-visual speech Open
These findings offer further insights into the neurophysiological basis of atypical rhythmic speech processing by children with dyslexia, suggesting the involvement of a wide range of frequency bands.
View article: Language Acquisition in the Longitudinal Cambridge UK BabyRhythm Cohort
Language Acquisition in the Longitudinal Cambridge UK BabyRhythm Cohort Open
The Cambridge UK BabyRhythm project is a study of 122 infants as they age from 2 – 30 months, investigating cortical tracking and sensorimotor synchronisation to acoustic and visual rhythm in relation to language acquisition. As there are …
View article: Neural processing of rhythmic speech by children with developmental language disorder (DLD): An EEG study
Neural processing of rhythmic speech by children with developmental language disorder (DLD): An EEG study Open
Sensitivity to rhythmic and prosodic cues in speech has been described as a precursor of language acquisition. Consequently, atypical rhythmic processing during infancy and early childhood has been considered a risk factor for developmenta…
View article: Decoding speech information from EEG data with 4-, 7- and 11-month-old infants: Using convolutional neural network, mutual information-based and backward linear models
Decoding speech information from EEG data with 4-, 7- and 11-month-old infants: Using convolutional neural network, mutual information-based and backward linear models Open
BACKGROUND: Computational models that successfully decode neural activity into speech are increasing in the adult literature, with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), backward linear models, and mutual information (MI) models all being a…
View article: Emergence of the cortical encoding of phonetic features in the first year of life
Emergence of the cortical encoding of phonetic features in the first year of life Open
Even prior to producing their first words, infants are developing a sophisticated speech processing system, with robust word recognition present by 4–6 months of age. These emergent linguistic skills, observed with behavioural investigatio…
View article: Amplitude Modulation Structure in French and German Poetry: Universal Acoustic Physical Structures Underpin Different Poetic Rhythm Structures
Amplitude Modulation Structure in French and German Poetry: Universal Acoustic Physical Structures Underpin Different Poetic Rhythm Structures Open
French and German poetry are classically considered to utilize fundamentally different linguistic structures to create rhythmic regularity. While German poetry utilizes lexical stress to create prosodic alternation between strong and weak …
View article: Neural responses to natural and enhanced speech edges in children with and without dyslexia
Neural responses to natural and enhanced speech edges in children with and without dyslexia Open
Sensory-neural studies indicate that children with developmental dyslexia show impairments in processing acoustic speech envelope information. Prior studies suggest that this arises in part from reduced sensory sensitivity to amplitude ris…
View article: Neural phase angle from two months when tracking speech and non-speech rhythm linked to language performance from 12 to 24 months
Neural phase angle from two months when tracking speech and non-speech rhythm linked to language performance from 12 to 24 months Open
Atypical phase alignment of low-frequency neural oscillations to speech rhythm has been implicated in phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia. Atypical phase alignment to rhythm could thus also characterize infants at risk for late…
View article: Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia
Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia Open
The prevalent "core phonological deficit" model of dyslexia proposes that the reading and spelling difficulties characterizing affected children stem from prior developmental difficulties in processing speech sound structure, for example, …
View article: Atypical beta-band effects in children with dyslexia in response to rhythmic audio-visual speech
Atypical beta-band effects in children with dyslexia in response to rhythmic audio-visual speech Open
Children with dyslexia are known to show impairments in perceiving speech rhythm, which impact their phonological development. Neural rhythmic speech studies have reported atypical delta phase in children with dyslexia, but beta band effec…
View article: Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD Open
Neural synchronization to amplitude-modulated noise at three frequencies (2 Hz, 5 Hz, 8 Hz) thought to be important for syllable perception was investigated in English-speaking school-aged children. The theoretically-important delta-band (…
View article: Cortical tracking of visual rhythmic speech by 5- and 8-month-old infants: Individual differences in phase angle relate to language outcomes up to 2 years
Cortical tracking of visual rhythmic speech by 5- and 8-month-old infants: Individual differences in phase angle relate to language outcomes up to 2 years Open
It is known that the rhythms of speech are visible on the face, accurately mirroring changes in the vocal tract. These low-frequency visual temporal movements are tightly correlated with speech output, and both visual speech (for example, …