Present and past: Can writing abilities in school children be associated with their auditory discrimination capacities in infancy?

Schaadt, Gesa; Männel, Claudia; Meer, Elke van der; Pannekamp, Ann; Oberecker, Regine; Friederici, Angela D.

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2015.10.002

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“…While ontogenetic factors operate on learning mechanisms over time, resulting in the reported differences between infant and adult learning, inter-individual differences are synchronically at work in all age groups. One of the factors driving inter-individual differences, namely auditory perception, has long been discussed as an important contributor to the outcome of first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and literacy development (Díaz et al, 2008;Leppanen et al, 2010;Schaadt et al, 2015;Tsao, Liu, & Kuhl, 2004).…”

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“…The influence of auditory perception on linguistic variables has been observed in populations with language disorders from infancy through adulthood (Guttorm et al, 2005;Männel, Schaadt, Illner, van der Meer, & Friederici, 2017;Schaadt et al, 2015;Schulte-Körne, Deimel, Bartling, & Remschmidt, 2001; for review, see Bishop, 2007).…”

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“…While ontogenetic factors operate on learning mechanisms over time, resulting in the reported differences between infant and adult learning, inter‐individual differences are synchronically at work in all age groups. One of the factors driving inter‐individual differences, namely auditory perception, has long been discussed as an important contributor to the outcome of first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and literacy development (Díaz et al., ; Leppanen et al., ; Schaadt et al., ; Tsao, Liu, & Kuhl, ). The influence of auditory perception on linguistic variables has been observed in populations with language disorders from infancy through adulthood (Guttorm et al., ; Männel, Schaadt, Illner, van der Meer, & Friederici, ; Schaadt et al., ; Schulte‐Körne, Deimel, Bartling, & Remschmidt, ; for review, see Bishop, ).…”

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“…One of the factors driving inter‐individual differences, namely auditory perception, has long been discussed as an important contributor to the outcome of first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and literacy development (Díaz et al., ; Leppanen et al., ; Schaadt et al., ; Tsao, Liu, & Kuhl, ). The influence of auditory perception on linguistic variables has been observed in populations with language disorders from infancy through adulthood (Guttorm et al., ; Männel, Schaadt, Illner, van der Meer, & Friederici, ; Schaadt et al., ; Schulte‐Körne, Deimel, Bartling, & Remschmidt, ; for review, see Bishop, ). Populations with intense auditory training, such as musicians (children and adults), have been reported to show enhanced pitch processing in both music and language (Schön, Magne, & Besson, ; Magne, Schön, & Besson, ) as well as enhanced electrophysiological measures of language processing (Habibi, Cahn, Damasio, & Damasio, ; Jentschke & Koelsch, ).…”

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Developmental changes in automatic rule‐learning mechanisms across early childhood

Mueller

Friederici

Männel

2018

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Infants' ability to learn complex linguistic regularities from early on has been revealed by electrophysiological studies indicating that 3-month-olds, but not adults, can automatically detect non-adjacent dependencies between syllables. While different ERP responses in adults and infants suggest that both linguistic rule learning and its link to basic auditory processing undergo developmental changes, systematic investigations of the developmental trajectories are scarce. In the present study, we assessed 2- and 4-year-olds' ERP indicators of pitch discrimination and linguistic rule learning in a syllable-based oddball design. To test for the relation between auditory discrimination and rule learning, ERP responses to pitch changes were used as predictor for potential linguistic rule-learning effects. Results revealed that 2-year-olds, but not 4-year-olds, showed ERP markers of rule learning. Although, 2-year-olds' rule learning was not dependent on differences in pitch perception, 4-year-old children demonstrated a dependency, such that those children who showed more pronounced responses to pitch changes still showed an effect of rule learning. These results narrow down the developmental decline of the ability for automatic linguistic rule learning to the age between 2 and 4 years, and, moreover, point towards a strong modification of this change by auditory processes. At an age when the ability of automatic linguistic rule learning phases out, rule learning can still be observed in children with enhanced auditory responses. The observed interrelations are plausible causes for age-of-acquisition effects and inter-individual differences in language learning.

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Developmental changes in automatic rule‐learning mechanisms across early childhood

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2018

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“…We applied a passive visual oddball paradigm with video‐recorded mouth movements pronouncing syllables silently as stimuli in order to measure the vMMR in children with and without DD. The particular syllables were chosen according to a previous study with these very same children to analyze the aMMR (Schaadt, Männel, van der Meer, Pannekamp, Oberecker et al ., under revision). We expected group differences between 9‐ to 10‐year‐old children with and without DD.…”

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Facial speech gestures: the relation between visual speech processing, phonological awareness, and developmental dyslexia in 10‐year‐olds

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Successful communication in everyday life crucially involves the processing of auditory and visual components of speech. Viewing our interlocutor and processing visual components of speech facilitates speech processing by triggering auditory processing. Auditory phoneme processing, analyzed by event-related brain potentials (ERP), has been shown to be associated with impairments in reading and spelling (i.e. developmental dyslexia), but visual aspects of phoneme processing have not been investigated in individuals with such deficits. The present study analyzed the passive visual Mismatch Response (vMMR) in school children with and without developmental dyslexia in response to video-recorded mouth movements pronouncing syllables silently. Our results reveal that both groups of children showed processing of visual speech stimuli, but with different scalp distribution. Children without developmental dyslexia showed a vMMR with typical posterior distribution. In contrast, children with developmental dyslexia showed a vMMR with anterior distribution, which was even more pronounced in children with severe phonological deficits and very low spelling abilities. As anterior scalp distributions are typically reported for auditory speech processing, the anterior vMMR of children with developmental dyslexia might suggest an attempt to anticipate potentially upcoming auditory speech information in order to support phonological processing, which has been shown to be deficient in children with developmental dyslexia.

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Association of Postpartum Maternal Mood With Infant Speech Perception at 2 and 6.5 Months of Age

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ImportanceLanguage development builds on speech perception, with early disruptions increasing the risk for later language difficulties. Although a major postpartum depressive episode is associated with language development, this association has not been investigated among infants of mothers experiencing a depressed mood at subclinical levels after birth, even though such a mood is frequently present in the first weeks after birth. Understanding whether subclinical depressed maternal mood after birth is associated with early language development is important given opportunities of coping strategies for subclinical depressed mood.ObjectiveTo examine whether depressed maternal mood at subclinical levels 2 months after birth is associated with infant speech perception trajectories from ages 2 to 6.5 months.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsIn this longitudinal cohort study conducted between January 1, 2018, and October 31, 2019, 46 healthy, monolingual German mother-infant dyads were tested. The sample was recruited from the infants database of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Initial statistical analysis was performed between January 1 and March 31, 2021; the moderation analysis (results reported herein) was conducted between July 1 and July 31, 2022.ExposuresMothers reported postpartum mood via the German version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (higher scores indicated higher levels of depressed mood, with a cutoff of 13 points indicating a high probability of clinical depression) when their infants were 2 months old.Main Outcomes and MeasuresElectrophysiological correlates of infant speech perception (mismatch response to speech stimuli) were tested when the infants were aged 2 months (initial assessment) and 6.5 months (follow-up).ResultsA total of 46 mothers (mean [SD] age, 32.1 [3.8] years) and their 2-month-old children (mean [SD] age, 9.6 [1.2] weeks; 23 girls and 23 boys) participated at the initial assessment, and 36 mothers (mean [SD] age, 32.2 [4.1] years) and their then 6.5-month-old children (mean [SD] age, 28.4 [1.5 weeks; 18 girls and 18 boys) participated at follow-up. Moderation analyses revealed that more depressed maternal subclinical postpartum mood (mean [SD] Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale score, 4.8 [3.6]) was associated with weaker longitudinal changes of infants’ electrophysiological brain responses to syllable pitch speech information from ages 2 to 6.5 months (coefficient: 0.68; 95% CI, 0.03-1.33; P = .04).Conclusions and RelevanceThe results of this cohort study suggest that infant speech perception trajectories are correlated with subclinical depressed mood in postpartum mothers. This finding lays the groundwork for future research on early support for caregivers experiencing depressed mood to have a positive association with children’s language development.

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Present and past: Can writing abilities in school children be associated with their auditory discrimination capacities in infancy?

Cited by 39 publications

References 84 publications

Developmental changes in automatic rule‐learning mechanisms across early childhood

Developmental changes in automatic rule‐learning mechanisms across early childhood

Facial speech gestures: the relation between visual speech processing, phonological awareness, and developmental dyslexia in 10‐year‐olds

Association of Postpartum Maternal Mood With Infant Speech Perception at 2 and 6.5 Months of Age

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