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Audio-visual temporal perception in children with restored hearing.

Monica Gori1, Anna Chilosi2, Francesca Forli3

  • 1U-VIP Unit for Visually Impaired People, Center for Human Technologies, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Enrico Melen 83, Genoa, Italy.

Neuropsychologia
|April 3, 2017
PubMed
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Children with restored hearing show improved audio-visual temporal perception and a link between auditory processing and language skills. This highlights the importance of temporal auditory processing for language development in these children.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Audiology

Background:

  • The development of audio-visual temporal perception in children with restored hearing is not well understood.
  • Previous research in typically hearing children indicates auditory precision surpasses visual precision in temporal tasks.
  • Multisensory integration in temporal perception varies across age groups and sensory experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate audio-visual temporal perception in deaf children with restored hearing.
  • To compare temporal discrimination abilities between deaf children with restored hearing and typically hearing children.
  • To explore the relationship between multisensory temporal processing and language development.

Main Methods:

  • An audio-visual temporal bisection task was used to measure temporal discrimination thresholds.
Keywords:
AuditoryDeafIntegrationMultisensoryVisual

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  • Participants included 9 deaf children with restored audition and 22 typically hearing children.
  • Correlation analyses examined the relationship between auditory weighting, auditory thresholds, and language skills.

    • Main Results:

    • Typically hearing children demonstrated more precise auditory than visual temporal discrimination, with no multisensory gain.
    • Deaf children with restored hearing exhibited similar auditory and visual temporal discrimination thresholds.
    • These children showed evidence of enhanced audio-visual temporal multisensory integration.
    • A significant correlation was found between the weighting of auditory signals in multisensory perception and language quality.
    • Auditory temporal discrimination thresholds also predicted language skills.

    Conclusions:

    • Restored audition in deaf children leads to distinct patterns of audio-visual temporal perception compared to typically hearing peers.
    • Enhanced multisensory integration in temporal tasks is observed in deaf children with restored hearing.
    • Temporal auditory processing is strongly associated with language development, suggesting a shared neural basis or developmental influence.