ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2016
Temporally Regular Musical Primes Facilitate Subsequent Syntax Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment.
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- Moving rhythmically can facilitate naturalistic speech perception in a noisy environment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Not primed to agree? Short or no effect of rhythmic priming on typical adults processing number agreement.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- From Sound to Movement: Mapping the Neural Mechanisms of Auditory-Motor Entrainment and Synchronization.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Neural processing of rhythmic speech by children with developmental language disorder (DLD): An EEG study.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Children With Developmental Language Disorder Show Deficits in the Production of Musical Rhythmic Groupings.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder.NPJ science of learning · 2023Article
- Perceived rhythmic regularity is greater for song than speech: examining acoustic correlates of rhythmic regularity in speech and song.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Syntactic modulation of rhythm in Australian pied butcherbird song.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- When Visual Cues Do Not Help the Beat: Evidence for a Detrimental Effect of Moving Point-Light Figures on Rhythmic Priming.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Does rhythmic priming improve grammatical processing in Hungarian-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder?Developmental science · 2021Article
- Processing rhythm in speech and music: Shared mechanisms and implications for developmental speech and language disorders.Neuropsychology · 2021Review
- The Neurological Basis of Developmental Dyslexia and Related Disorders: A Reappraisal of the Temporal Hypothesis, Twenty Years on.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2020Review
- Musical Training for Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Loss.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Absence of Rhythm Benefit on Speech in Noise Recognition in Children Diagnosed With Auditory Processing Disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Children with developmental language disorders have been shown to be also impaired in rhythm and meter perception. Temporal processing and its link to language processing can be understood within the dynamic attending theory. An external stimulus can stimulate internal oscillators, which orient attention over time and drive speech signal segmentation to provide benefits for syntax processing, which is impaired in various patient populations. For children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and dyslexia, previous research has shown the influence of an external rhythmic stimulation on subsequent language processing by comparing the influence of a temporally regular musical prime to that of a temporally irregular prime. Here we tested whether the observed rhythmic stimulation effect is indeed due to a benefit provided by the regular musical prime (rather than a cost subsequent to the temporally irregular prime). Sixteen children with SLI and 16 age-matched controls listened to either a regular musical prime sequence or an environmental sound scene (without temporal regularities in event occurrence; i.e., referred to as "baseline condition") followed by grammatically correct and incorrect sentences. They were required to perform grammaticality judgments for each auditorily presented sentence. Results revealed that performance for the grammaticality judgments was better after the regular prime sequences than after the baseline sequences. Our findings are interpreted in the theoretical framework of the dynamic attending theory (Jones, 1976) and the temporal sampling (oscillatory) framework for developmental language disorders (Goswami, 2011). Furthermore, they encourage the use of rhythmic structures (even in non-verbal materials) to boost linguistic structure processing and outline perspectives for rehabilitation.
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