ReviewJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2013
Research Review: Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 2012 - neuroscientific studies of intervention for language impairment in children: interpretive and methodological problems.
Review in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Music Training Increases Phonological Awareness and Reading Skills in Developmental Dyslexia: A Randomized Control Trial.PloS one · 2015Trial
- Neuroimaging in pediatric language development and disorders: a scoping review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Annual Research Review: Educational neuroscience: progress and prospects.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2019Review
- A Translational Framework of Educational Neuroscience in Learning Disorders.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2018Review
- The Origins of Cognitive Deficits in Victimized Children: Implications for Neuroscientists and Clinicians.The American journal of psychiatry · 2017Article
- The Effect of Short-Term Auditory Training on Speech in Noise Perception and Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials in Adults with Cochlear Implants.Seminars in hearing · 2016Article
- Neuroscience illuminating the influence of auditory or phonological intervention on language-related deficits.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Review
- Developmental pathways to autism: a review of prospective studies of infants at risk.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2014Review
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Abstract
backgroundOur ability to look at structure and function of a living brain has increased exponentially since the early 1970s. Many studies of developmental disorders now routinely include a brain imaging or electrophysiological component. Amid current enthusiasm for applications of neuroscience to educational interventions, we need to pause to consider what neuroimaging data can tell us. Images of brain activity are seductive, and have been used to give credibility to commercial interventions, yet we have only a limited idea of what the brain bases of language disorders are, let alone how to alter them. SCOPE AND
findingsA review of six studies of neuroimaging correlates of language intervention found recurring methodological problems: lack of an adequate control group, inadequate power, incomplete reporting of data, no correction for multiple comparisons, data dredging and failure to analyse treatment effects appropriately. In addition, there is a tendency to regard neuroimaging data as more meaningful than behavioural data, even though it is behaviour that interventions aim to alter.
conclusionIn our current state of knowledge, it would be better to spend research funds doing well-designed trials of behavioural treatment to establish which methods are effective, rather than rushing headlong into functional imaging studies of unproven treatments.
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