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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2022

Reduced Learning of Sound Categories in Dyslexia Is Associated with Reduced Regularity-Induced Auditory Cortex Adaptation.

Ayelet Gertsovski, Merav Ahissar

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Rapid decay of perceptual memory in dyslexia.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026
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  4. Reduced categorical learning of faces in dyslexia.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024
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  5. Auditory Category Learning in Children With Dyslexia.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024
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  6. Adaptation in auditory processing.Physiological reviews · 2023
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  7. Diminished Repetition Suppression Reveals Selective and Systems-Level Face Processing Differences in ASD.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ayelet GertsovskiThe Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9202-5093
Merav AhissarThe Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel msmerava@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-7694-8111
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · IL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A main characteristic of dyslexia is poor use of sound categories. We now studied within-session learning of new sound categories in dyslexia, behaviorally and neurally, using fMRI. Human participants (males and females) with and without dyslexia were asked to discriminate which of two serially-presented tones had a higher pitch. The task was administered in two protocols, with and without a repeated reference frequency. The reference condition introduces regularity, and enhances frequency sensitivity in typically developing (TD) individuals. Enhanced sensitivity facilitates the formation of "high" and "low" pitch categories above and below this reference, respectively. We found that in TDs, learning was paralleled by a gradual decrease in activation of the primary auditory cortex (PAC), and reduced activation of the superior temporal gyrus (STG) and left posterior parietal cortex (PPC), which are important for using sensory history. No such sensitivity was found among individuals with dyslexia (IDDs). Rather, IDDs showed reduced behavioral learning of stimulus regularities and no regularity-associated adaptation in the auditory cortex or in higher-level regions. We propose that IDDs' reduced cortical adaptation, associated with reduced behavioral learning of sound regularities, underlies their impoverished use of stimulus history, and consequently impedes their formation of rich sound categories.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalAdultAuditory CortexDyslexiaFemaleHumansLearningMagnetic Resonance ImagingMalePitch PerceptionSoundSpeech Perceptionauditory cortexdyslexiafrequency discriminationperceptual learningstatistical regularities

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PMID34969869
PMCPMC8883854
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