Auditory temporal-regularity processing correlates with language and literacy skill in early adulthood

Grube, Manon; Cooper, Freya E.; Griffiths, Timothy D.

doi:10.1080/17588928.2013.825236

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“…This is consistent with our previous findings, in which the correlations between rhythm processing and language skills were relatively independent of non-verbal intellectual skill in early adolescence and early adulthood (Grube et al, 2012, 2013). That is, these correlations were less affected by partialling out the effects on non-verbal IQ than those for pitch processing or processing speed (e.g., Deary, 1994; Stewart et al, 2015).…”

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“…This effect is somewhat consistent with the findings of our previous study (Grube et al, 2013) in which we used a number of word, non-word and poetry reading measures. We demonstrated there a strong effect for regularity detection, followed by a moderate one for strongly metrical rhythm processing, but none for that of gradual tempo contour of similar complexity to the regularity detection task.…”

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confidence: 92%

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The Beat to Read: A Cross-Lingual Link between Rhythmic Regularity Perception and Reading Skill

Bekius

Cope

Grube

2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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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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The Beat to Read: A Cross-Lingual Link between Rhythmic Regularity Perception and Reading Skill

Bekius

Cope

Grube

2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Section: Music Perception and Speech Perceptionsupporting

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“…In line with this view, rhythm abilities predict phonological processing in typically developing children (Carr, White-Schwoch, Tierney, Strait, & Kraus, 2014;Moritz, Yampolsky, Papadelis, Thomson, & Wolf, 2013), adolescents (Tierney & Kraus, 2013), and adults (Grube, Cooper, & Griffiths, 2013). Such associations also extend to syntax and reading abilities (Gordon et al, 2015;Grube et al, 2013;Tierney & Kraus, 2013). For children with reading impairments, rhythm abilities are below normal (Overy, Nicolson, Fawcett, & Clarke, 2003) and correlated with their phonological and reading abilities (Huss, Verney, Fosker, Mead, & Goswami, 2011).…”

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Musical competence and phoneme perception in a foreign language

Swaminathan

Schellenberg

2017

Psychon Bull Rev

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We investigated whether musical competence was associated with the perception of foreign-language phonemes. The sample comprised adult native-speakers of English who varied in music training. The measures included tests of general cognitive abilities, melody and rhythm perception, and the perception of consonantal contrasts that were phonemic in Zulu but not in English. Music training was associated positively with performance on the tests of melody and rhythm perception, but not with performance on the phonemeperception task. In other words, we found no evidence for transfer of music training to foreign-language speech perception. Rhythm perception was not associated with the perception of Zulu clicks, but such an association was evident when the phonemes sounded more similar to English consonants. Moreover, it persisted after controlling for general cognitive abilities and music training. By contrast, there was no association between melody perception and phoneme perception. The findings are consistent with proposals that music-and speech-perception rely on similar mechanisms of auditory temporal processing, and that this overlap is independent of general cognitive functioning. They provide no support, however, for the idea that music training improves speech perception.

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“…Phonological short-term memory was measured using a test developed from previously designed nonword repetition tasks (e.g. Grube et al 2013). A list of nonwords comprising 20 items ranging from 4 to 8 syllables in length was played to the participants.…”

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Categorical Speech Perception in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions

Stewart

Petrou

Ota

2017

J Autism Dev Disord

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This study tested whether individuals with autism spectrum conditions (n = 23) show enhanced discrimination of acoustic differences that signal a linguistic contrast (i.e., /g/ versus /k/ as in 'goat' and 'coat') and whether they process such differences in a less categorical fashion as compared with 23 IQ-matched typically developed adults. Tasks administered were nonverbal IQ, verbal IQ, 5 language measures, a speech perception task, and the ADOS. The speech perception task measured the discrimination of paired exemplars along the /g/-/k/ continuum. Individuals with autism spectrum conditions did not show enhanced discrimination of speech perception. Categorical speech perception was correlated with verbal ability of reading, lexical decision, and verbal IQ in individuals with autism spectrum conditions.

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Auditory temporal-regularity processing correlates with language and literacy skill in early adulthood

Cited by 30 publications

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The Beat to Read: A Cross-Lingual Link between Rhythmic Regularity Perception and Reading Skill

The Beat to Read: A Cross-Lingual Link between Rhythmic Regularity Perception and Reading Skill

Musical competence and phoneme perception in a foreign language

Categorical Speech Perception in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions

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