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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations
Published on: July 1, 2015
Late cognitive brain potentials, phonological and semantic classification of spoken words, and reading ability in
D Lovrich1, J C Cheng, D M Velting
1State University of New York, Empire State College, Old Westbury 11568, USA.
Abstract:
Event-related potential (ERP), reaction time, and response accuracy measures were obtained during rhyming and semantic classification of spoken words in 10 average (mean age 11.64 years) and 9 impaired reading (mean age 12.10 years) children. The behavioral measures of classification did not distinguish the groups. In the ERPs, rhyme processing produced more pronounced group differences than did semantic processing at about 480 ms, with a relatively more negative distribution for the impaired readers at centroparietal sites. At about 800 ms in both classification tasks, the impaired readers displayed a late positivity that was delayed in latency and of larger amplitude at frontal sites than that for the average readers. The ERP findings suggest that the categorization of spoken words for meaning and sound result in increasingly more aberrant correlates of these processing demands in reading-impaired children.
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