ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2016
The Beat to Read: A Cross-Lingual Link between Rhythmic Regularity Perception and Reading Skill.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Temporal Probability-Guided Shifts in Temporal Preparation Away from the Beat Under a Distracting Rhythm in Aging.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Is It About Speech or About Prediction? Testing Between Two Accounts of the Rhythm-Reading Link.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- The role of native language and beat perception ability in the perception of speech rhythm : Native language, beat perception, and speech rhythm perception.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Duration Perception and Reading in Typically Developing Adults and Adults with Developmental Dyslexia: Implications for Assessment and Intervention.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- The Musical Abilities, Pleiotropy, Language, and Environment (MAPLE) Framework for Understanding Musicality-Language Links Across the Lifespan.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Review
- Auditory beat perception is related to speech output fluency in post-stroke aphasia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Creating an Internal Environment of Cognitive and Psycho-Emotional Well-Being through an External Movement-Based Environment: An Overview of Quadrato Motor Training.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Spoken Word Recognition Enhancement Due to Preceding Synchronized Beats Compared to Unsynchronized or Unrhythmic Beats.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
- Evolutionary Musicology Meets Embodied Cognition: Biocultural Coevolution and the Enactive Origins of Human Musicality.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Review
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Abstract
This work assesses one specific aspect of the relationship between auditory rhythm cognition and language skill: regularity perception. In a group of 26 adult participants, native speakers of 11 different native languages, we demonstrate a strong and significant correlation between the ability to detect a "roughly" regular beat and rapid automatized naming (RAN) as a measure of language skill (Spearman's rho, -0.47, p < 0.01). There was no such robust relationship for the "mirror image" task of irregularity detection, i.e., the ability to detect ongoing small deviations from a regular beat. The correlation between RAN and regularity detection remained significant after partialling out performance on the irregularity detection task (rho, -0.41, p, 0.022), non-verbal IQ (rho, -0.37, p < 0.05), or musical expertise (rho, -0.31, p < 0.05). Whilst being consistent with the "shared resources model" in terms of rhythm as a common basis of language and music, evolutionarily as well as in individual development, the results also document how two related rhythm processing abilities relate differently to language skill. Specifically, the results support a universal relationship between rhythmic regularity detection and reading skill that is robust to accounting for differences in fluid intelligence and musical expertise, and transcends language-specific differences in speech rhythm.
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