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  • Cognitive Science
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Speech perception relies on categorizing variable sounds.
  • Procedural learning is implicated in acquiring novel speech categories.
  • Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) may involve procedural learning deficits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate auditory category learning in children with DLD.
  • To differentiate procedural versus declarative learning in DLD.
  • To explore the impact of DLD on fundamental perceptual and cognitive language support processes.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed auditory category learning in children with DLD and typically developing (TD) peers.
  • Utilized two non-speech auditory category learning tasks.
  • Employed quantitative model-based analyses to examine strategy use.

Main Results:

  • Children with DLD exhibited impaired information-integration (procedural) category learning.
  • Rule-based (declarative) category learning was intact in the DLD group.
  • DLD group showed reduced use and slower shifting to optimal procedural strategies.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis of language disorders.
  • Demonstrates a dissociation between procedural and declarative learning in DLD.
  • Highlights how perceptual and cognitive task performance relates to real-world language challenges in DLD.