Executive Function and Sensory Processing in Dichotic Listening of Young Adults with Listening Difficulties

Pascoinelli, Aline Tocchini; Schochat, Eliane; Murphy, Cristina Ferraz Borges

doi:10.3390/jcm10184255

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“…Recent studies have also reported poor cognition, such as attention and working memory, in individuals with LiD [Roebuck and Barry, 2018;Magimairaj et al, 2018;Pascoinelli et al, 2021;Petley et al, 2021], however, they do not adequately describe the actual state of poor attention ability in adults with LiD. Hence, one aspect revealed in this study was that adults with LiD had difficulties in distributing their attention properly to many things.…”

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confidence: 59%

Auditory Attention Ability under Dichotic Dual-Task Situation in Adults with Listening Difficulties

Obuchi¹,

Kawase²,

Kaga³

et al. 2022

Audiol Neurotol

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Introduction: Recent studies have reported poor cognition, such as attention and working memory, in adults with listening difficulties (LiD). However, they do not adequately describe the actual state of poor attention ability in adults with LiD. We examined the state of auditory attention in adults with and without LiD in tasks requiring multiple attention controls. Methods: Twenty-one adults who had normal hearing but complained about LiD encountered during everyday life and 22 healthy controls were included. We presented a target detection task using an odd-ball format for one ear and a sentence repetition task for the other ear. In the target detection task, participants listened to the 1,000-Hz tone served as the standard stimulus, while they had to accept a 2,000-Hz tone presented as the deviant stimulus. In the sentence repetition task, short sentences were presented. The stimuli presented to them were played on a personal computer at the most comfortable level. The participants heard these stimuli through headphones. They were required to press a key for standard stimuli in the target detection task and repeat what they heard immediately in the repetition task. We compared the response accuracy for each ear task between adults with and without LiD. Results: Our results showed that there were significant differences between the participant groups in the auditory dual-task under the dichotic listening situation. When examined individually, four adults with LiD had decreased scores in both the sentence repetition and target detection task, while the other nine participants showed a bias toward either task. Furthermore, the analysis of reaction time for pressing button revealed that the standard deviation of reaction time was extended in participants who scored poorly in either of the ear tasks. On the other hand, all adults without LiD were able to conduct the auditory dual-task exactly and promptly. Conclusion: The results suggest that adults with LiD have difficulties in appropriately allocating various cognitive abilities required for each task. We concluded that auditory attention is an important ability to conduct the auditory dual-task, and this is applicable for adults with LiD. Therefore, we believe that it is necessary to use auditory tests that require complex attentional abilities in listening, such as those required in daily life, to assess adults with LiD.

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Auditory Attention Ability under Dichotic Dual-Task Situation in Adults with Listening Difficulties

Obuchi¹,

Kawase²,

Kaga³

et al. 2022

Audiol Neurotol

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“…Findings may lead to better understanding the role of sensory modulation in parental scaffolding of children, from both perspectives—modeling as well as co-regulation [ 16 ]. While previous reports indicated that sensory modulation and anxiety are related [ 56 , 93 , 94 ], sensory modulation and executive functions have also been reported to co-occur, affecting emotional regulation, self-control, and daily activities [ 87 , 88 , 95 , 96 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring Co-Regulation-Related Factors in the Mothers of ADHD Children—Proof of Concept Study

Yaacoby-Vakrat,

Pade,

Bar-Shalita

2023

Children

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Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex neurological condition interfering with family relationships and co-regulation capabilities. Therefore, exploring factors underpinning parental co-regulation ability is crucial for future fostering relationships in families of children with ADHD. Objective: This preliminary study aims to characterize and compare the executive-functions, anxiety, self-efficacy, and sensory modulation in mothers of children with and without ADHD. Method: Mothers of children with (study group) and without (control-comparison, group) ADHD completed online self-reports, measuring executive-functions; parental self-efficacy; anxiety; and sensory modulation. Results: The study group (N = 40) had lower self-efficacy compared to the control group (N = 27; p = 0.018), and the control group had lower sensory responsiveness (p = 0.025). Within both groups the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult (BRIEF-A) Global Executive Function Composite score (GEC) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) were moderately correlated. Further, within the study group correlations were found between the BRIEF-A-GEC and the Sensory Responsiveness Questionnaire (SRQ)-Aversive scores (r = 0.37, p ≤ 0.01), and between the BRIEF-A Behavioral-Rating-Index and the parental self-efficacy scores (r = 0.31, p ≤ 0.05). Within the control group, negative correlations were found between the BRIEF-A-GEC and SRQ-Hedonic scores (r= −0.44, p < 0.05). Conclusion: Self-efficacy, executive-functions, high sensory responsiveness and anxiety traits are interwoven and may impact parental co-regulation ability.

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“…The participant is asked to verbally reproduce either all the perceived signals (free recall) or only those perceived in one ear (directed attention). Attention plays an important part in DL tests, and is considered as a source of variance in DL results [ 3 , 4 ]. Attentional manipulations were used in dichotic listening studies to control for attentional bias; Asbjornsen et al proposed an index of attentional shift (The Attentional Shift Index (ASI)) based on the ratio of correct responses and intrusion errors when the subject is performing the tasks of directed attention [ 4 ].…”

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Age-Related Dichotic Listening Skills in Impaired and Non-Impaired Readers: A Comparative Study

Reynard

Joly

Damien

et al. 2023

JCM

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Dichotic listening is the high-level auditory process which enables the perception of different verbal stimuli delivered simultaneously to the right and left ears (binaural integration), as well as the perception of a verbal stimulus presented to one ear while ignoring a different stimulus in the other ear (binaural separation). Deficits in central auditory processing have been reported in children with learning disabilities. The present study aimed to compare dichotic listening performances in right-handed impaired readers (IR) and non-impaired readers (non-IR) according to age. For this, a cross-sectional study was conducted in 120 IR (56 males and 64 females) divided into five age groups and 120 non-IR (63 male and 57 female) matched on chronological age (8 to 9 years; 9 to 10 years; 10 to 12 years; 12 to 18 years; adult). They were tested for binaural integration and binaural separation, allowing for the calculation of dichotic aptitude (DA), ear prevalence (EP), and attentional shift index (ASI). A series of ANOVAs showed an effect of age and of the reading group for all the dichotic-related measures, except for EP. Binaural separation scores were lower in IR who also showed more intrusive responses compared to non-IR. These intrusive responses, which were more frequent on the right ear for IR, decreased with age in both groups. Overall, these results suggest that dichotic listening scores improve with age as the central auditory pathways mature. However, whatever the age, performances are lower in IR than in non-IR. This might be explained by an incomplete maturation of the auditory pathways in IR; an early start for long-term follow-up and auditory training is suggested.

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Executive Function and Sensory Processing in Dichotic Listening of Young Adults with Listening Difficulties

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Auditory Attention Ability under Dichotic Dual-Task Situation in Adults with Listening Difficulties

Auditory Attention Ability under Dichotic Dual-Task Situation in Adults with Listening Difficulties

Exploring Co-Regulation-Related Factors in the Mothers of ADHD Children—Proof of Concept Study

Age-Related Dichotic Listening Skills in Impaired and Non-Impaired Readers: A Comparative Study

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