ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2022
Speech cortical activation and connectivity in typically developing children and those with listening difficulties.
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- Reduced neural speech tracking in adolescents with listening difficulty.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Structural and pragmatic language skills in school-age children relate to resting state functional connectivity.Brain imaging and behavior · 2025Article
- Cortical connectivity in speech and sensory networks associated with childrens' listening and attention disorders.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Multidisciplinary Clinical Assessment and Interventions for Childhood Listening Difficulty and Auditory Processing Disorder: Relation Between Research Findings and Clinical Practice.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Amplitude Modulation Perception and Cortical Evoked Potentials in Children With Listening Difficulties and Their Typically Developing Peers.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Altered structural connectome of children with auditory processing disorder: a diffusion MRI study.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Altered brain network topology in children with auditory processing disorder: A resting-state multi-echo fMRI study.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2022Article
- Auditory Cognitive Training Improves Brain Plasticity in Healthy Older Adults: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Listening difficulties (LiD) in people who have normal audiometry are a widespread but poorly understood form of hearing impairment. Recent research suggests that childhood LiD are cognitive rather than auditory in origin. We examined decoding of sentences using a novel combination of behavioral testing and fMRI with 43 typically developing children and 42 age matched (6-13 years old) children with LiD, categorized by caregiver report (ECLiPS). Both groups had clinically normal hearing. For sentence listening tasks, we found no group differences in fMRI brain cortical activation by increasingly complex speech stimuli that progressed in emphasis from phonology to intelligibility to semantics. Using resting state fMRI, we examined the temporal connectivity of cortical auditory and related speech perception networks. We found significant group differences only in cortical connections engaged when processing more complex speech stimuli. The strength of the affected connections was related to the children's performance on tests of dichotic listening, speech-in-noise, attention, memory and verbal vocabulary. Together, these results support the novel hypothesis that childhood LiD reflects difficulties in language rather than in auditory or phonological processing.
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